quand le diable s'en mêlerait, even if the devil

(Satan) should interfère (to prevent me). Note that

quand hère is used for quand même.

19. bel et bien, oui and out, or ' fully,' ' completely.' 31. Nous sommes des paysans, we are country-people, 180. — 24. Tristan, a personage of the cyclic poems of the Round

Table, celebrated espeeially for his love for the beauti-

ful IseuU. He belongs to the 12th century, and his

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adventures are mentioned by Mari* d& France and other writere of that period.

180.— 26. Gloire à vous dans le Ciel et paix sur la terre aux hommes de bonne volonté. The student will observe the différence between thèse words and our usual version : "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Luke ii. 14.

It will be seen that thèse words of Sylvestre Bonnard, " to men of good will," correspond with the Vulgate, and express the idea conveyed in our Revised Version.

131.— 23. Il y aura après demain huit jours que, it will be a week day.after to-morrow since.

24. il a mis la olef sous la porte, he ran away. Lit., * he put the key under the door.'