mutin, " arch *' or " roguish

83.— 13. un vieux routier, *'an old stager," one who is acquainted with ail the roads (routes).

14. en . . . couleurs, " to bave seen things of ail colors," to bave been in ail kinds of situations.

19. séide, the name of a fanatic in Voltaire's " Mahomet," who commits a murder by the prophètes command. Thus the word bas come to mean a zealot ready for any crime at his master's behest.

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24. C'est à se demander, "one feels inclined to ask himself.'*

84* — 27. Danton, tlie famous démagogue and orator of the Reigpa of Terror. He was excitable and violent in Lis manner.