à plis à V antique, * with classic folds

1. 26. des manchettes à deux rangs, * ruffles with double frills.'

Page 15. 1. 27. la bataille de Fontenoy was the engagement in which Marshal Saxe defeated the combined armies of England and Austria under the Duke of Cumberland in 1745.

1. 28. des histoires un peu franches, ' somewhat questionable stories.'

Page 16. 1. 5. s'étaient promis de s'entre-appeler aussitôt que Vune aurait devancé Vautre, ' had mutually promised that the one who died first should at once summon the other.'

1. 30. en liesse, in a state of gaiety. The old French word liesse is a survival of the Latin word laelitia, ' joy.'

Page 17. 1. 11. une lévite, a sort of long frock-coat. 1. 14. s'envieillissait, 'assumed a vénérable air.'

Page 18. 1. 1. Cacciaguida was the great-grandfather of Dante. Dante first encounters him in the 15th canto of the Paradiso. In the 17th canto he foretells the poet's exile.

1. 29. au Sillon. Le Sillon, as already described on p. 13, ia the chaussée or causeway joining St. Malo to the mainland.

Page 19. 1. 15. la chaussée. See note above.

1. 37. mouillant en rade, * riding at anchor in the roadstead.'

Page 20. 1. 12. La France, probably a butler or major-domo.

1. 15. Il y a loin de ces parents sévères aux gâte-enfants d'aujourd'hui, ' It is a far cry from stern parents like thèse to the overfond parents of to-day.'