un léger sifflottement, " a low whistle

111. — 2. sani arriére-pensée = ''without meaning anything 3n particular."

30. Dauphin, a title attached in the Middle Ages to tlie holding of certain great fiefs. One of thèse was the province of Dauphiné. The last lord of that province, Humbert III., made it the condition of the absolute cession of his domain to the crown of France, that the eldest son of the French kings should henceforth be called daupJiin,