Je n'ai pas pu y tenir, I could not stand it Lit

1 hold to it.'

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10& — 4. hilare — i e. t hilarant, laughable. This adjective hilare is very rare, but is used by J. B. Rousseau (1669-1741). It is a Latinism, made from the Latin hilaris. tesson au caramel, fragment of caramel. So called because, burnt as it was, it cracked off like a pièce of china in angular pièces.

19. à l'intention de, for, vriih the intention of giving them to. 19. Je profitai de ce que la bonne âme était allée, Iprofited by the good souJCs Jtaving gone. Lit., * from the fact that/ etc.

10é«— 12. Le roi de Thulé, etc. For an allusion to this legend of the king of Thule see the song of Margaret in Goethe's Faust, beginning:

" There was a king in Thule, True even to the grave, To whom his dying mistress A golden beaker gave."