Il n'a pas le pied marin, *'he hasn't good sea-legs

29. eau bénite, *' blessed water," i.e. holy water. Bénite e, is said of the blessing of priests; béni, e, of the blessing of God or men. Littré gives this example : Des armes qui ont été bénites par V Eglise, ne sont pas toujours bénies du ciel sur le champ de bataille,

20* — 1. marbre, block or slab of marble.

21. — 3. l'année terrible, the year of tlie Franco-Prassian war, 1870-71.

4. Pinstallation républicaine, "the establishment of the republic.*' There was much wrangling, intriguing, and conspiring of political parties before the republic, proclaimed after the fall of Napoléon III. in 1870, was firmly established on its présent basis.

7. Be présenter aux élections = "to run for Congress" (i.e. the Chamber).

9. Quelle drôle d'idée! '• what a funny idéal " In this idiom the adjective before drôle takes the gender and number of the noun which follows de: e.g. un drôle d^ homme.

12. ne fût-ee . . . direction, "if it was only for the purpose of not leaving the direction of them," etc.

13. plus d'indifférence qu'il n'aurait fallu, ne is inserted expletively before a verb following and depending on a comparative. See Whitney's Fr. Gr., § 170, c.

25. faisait des armes, "fenced." The same construction is used with bicyclette, "rode the bicycle." 22. — 2. en garçon rangé, " as a well-conducted yonng man."

4. ce bonhomme-là, "this yonng chap." 9. Baptiste, only a name, like John.