seo et cassant, without sentiment and overbearing

25. n'aimait pas à l'entendre injurier, did not like to hear him insvlted. Note that V is hère tlïe direct object of injurier, and that the object of entendre, if expressed, would require a préposition. See Less. 39, iii. Note 2.

27. plus Voltairien et plus légitimiste que jamais, more Voltairian and more legitimist than ever. It seems that M. de Lessay was what has been called a Voltairian (i. e. y libéral) legitimist. His views were those referred to by V. Hugo in thèse words : " Le royalisme Voltairien, variété bizarre, a eu un pendant non moins étrange, le libéralisme Bonapartiste."

34. La chute de Charles X., the f ail of Charles X. Charles X., brother and successor of Louis XVIII. (who was the first prince of the old Bourbon Une to be restored after the final defeat of Napoléon, 1815), abdicated in the Révolution of July, 1830.

53. — 6. ses bonnes fortunes de vieux brave, his good fortune as an old vétéran.

16. passer une couronne d'immortelles, hang a crown of immortelles ; i. e., as on funeral monuments.

27. lui parut de mauvais aloi, did not suit him ai ail. Lit, 'appeared to him of bad quality/ Aloi (Eng. alloy) from the idea of ' the determined proportion of metals mixed,' has come to signify good or bad quality in gênerai ; as marchandises de bon aloi.

30. que diable, what in the world is a convenient English translation, giving the spirit of the original.

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53.— 31. de voir si j'ai des éperons à mes bottes, toseeme leave. Lit., l to see if I have.spurs on niy boots/

54. — 12. Huit coups sonnèrent dans les ruines de Cartilage, eight o'clock struck by the famUy dock. See 50-21.