me serre encore le cœur, stïll oppresses my heart

20. sans que je daignasse m'inquiéter, vrithout my deigning to trouble myself 50. — 13. grâce décente, becoming grâce.

28. si je m'avisais par impossible de composer un roman, if I had the impossible thought of composing a romance.

32. en s'étendant avec complaisance sur, in dilating in a complacent way upon.

35. mon récit tiendra aisément, my account can easUy be given.

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51.— 9. J'étais, en histoire, de l'école des novateurs, in the matter of history I belonged to the school of innovators.

10. l'on ne sait guère feindre, one knows but litûe how to conceal his view8.

16. Marmontel, a Frencti littérateur of the 18th century, best known for his Contes morales and historical romances. As a dramatist he was a failure, his charactere being unreal and overdrawn. Hence the allusion in the text. He was a friend and imitator of Voltaire, but non passions aequis.

28. les lavait à l'aquarelle," tinted them in water-colors. 52. — 7. je dois le dire, Imust confess.