comme un présage, in anticipation

9. Dom Michel Germain, a French Bénédictine monk and learned paleographer of the 17th century.

14. autant que je pus le comprendre, as far as Icould comprehend. Note that le, as frequently, is redundant in English,

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88.— 19. c'est alors que je dressai l'oreille, it was then thaï I listened atterdively. Lit., 'pricked up the ear/ Note also the présent c'est wbere the past is required in English ; a very common construction.