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pej:^int ... au ; lit. came across to ; reacTied

13. se flEdsait vivement sentir ; lit. made feel itself, caused itself

to bè felt ; she feU keenly the faUgue, . . . See note p. 8, 1. 26. But note that sentir is hère active and se is its direct object ; or, as previously said, flaire sentir being taken as one verb, may be parsed hère as refiexive.

14. isba ; a cottage built in pine-wood among the inhabitants of

northem Europe and Asia. It consists generally of two small apartments or sets of dwelling-rooms, with a covered yard joming them. It sometimes also consists of a single ixt^Q room, with an enormous stove occupying a large part of it. "Maison de paysan, ordinairement composée dune seule chambre dont un énorme poêle occupe une bonne partie. Quoique l'isba réponde à peu près au mot de chaumière, il n'entraîne point cependant l'idée de misère." — (Note de l'auteur. )

17. Elle fit le sigrne de la croix ; she made the sign of the cross ; she crossed herself.

20. enseierne, sign, signboard. Enaeigne is masculine when it

means a naval officer, a midshipman.

21. lui fit Juger, caused her to corne to the conclusion. See note

23. revenait sur ; lit. was coming back upon ; was retra^cing,

s'orienter ; lit. to set her face towards the east, to seek the east, and thence find the other cardinal points ; to take her hearings, to see where she was.

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