entreprendre quelque chose le lundi In Russia Monday

is looked upon as an unlucky day among the people and superstitions persons. The répugnance to undertaKe anything on that day, especially a joumey, is universal.

27. renverser la salière, to spill the saM; lit. overthrow the

salt-cellar. A very widely spread superstition Sait is supposed to be a powerful talisman a^ainst the power of hell. In order to undo the mischief done by the spilHng of sait, one should take a pinch of it and throw it behind one's back with the right hand, and over the left shoulder. In Scotland, the Hébrides and Orkney Isles, sait water is supposed to possess wonderful properties.

29. qui lui tombait sous les yeux ; lit. which fell to her under the eyes ; which her eyes happened to fall upon, which chanced to meet her gaze,

8. 4. en tiraillant ; lit. puUing about ; distorting, tortrm/ng.