boisée de chêne, 'panelled with oak

1. 4. donnant sur la rue, 'witli a view of ', or 'looking into the Street'.

1.20. duft accent poignant, 'with a poignant accent'; poignant, 'keen', is the partie, près, oi poindre, 'to sting', from hat. pu ngere.

1. 23. viennent de passer la revue, 'hâve just been passed in review'. Obs. the différence between venir de, 'to hâve just done' ; venir à, ' to contrive to'; venir pour, 'to come for the purpose of.

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1. 8. se 7neurt, 'is dying away' ; mourir is simply 'to die'. 1. 29. tiens, et laisse-nous tranquilles, 'take this and leave us in peace '.

tSo la guerre.

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