instruction, "investigation," "inquest

154.— 3. Il n'a pas dépendu de moi, ** It hasn't been my fault."

21. que vous, etc., '' that yon should be so far behind the times as to talk of political frieDdship."

25. évoluer, an allusion to the modem doctrine of Development.

29. intransigeant, from transiger , "to transact,'* **to come to an arrangement or compromise." This was the name of a group of représentatives of the radical party, who proclaimed their détermination never to come to any agreement with other groups easier to satisfy. The Opportunistes, on the other hand, are disposed to accept the favors of the moment.

29. ils ont bifurqué, "they hâve swerved toward officiai radicalism," that is, radicalism as the government understood it, not intransigeant.

155.— 10. Il en oubliait Oilberte, "hewas forgetting Gilberte in conséquence of being occupied with thèse thoughts (en)."