indignes, unworthy, in the sensé of calumnious

qui V avaient fait maltraiter, which had caused her to be ill-treated : la is governed by maltraiter.

1. 25. diaprés Vaccueil, in accordance with the réception, see above, note to p. 23, 1. i6.

P. 30, 1. I. les gagner, win their sympathy. Thus again : ** Mais charmante Marianne, commençons, je vous prie, "Çdx gagner votre mère." (Molière, V Avare, iv. i.)

1.4. la fatigue dont. .. = ...par laquelle ; see above, note to p. 11, 1. 10.

L 16. navrée des refus, deeply wounded by the refusais ; navrcTy liter. to pierce ; comp. the Germ. narbe, a. scar. The word navrer isonly used now in a metaphorical sensé.

1. 31. il en est une, there is one; en is hère a pronoun=^(?//(i?j, \»^de situations.

1- 33' /^w sa singularité, on account of its out of the way character. Pour in the sensé of because of is often used synonymously with par ; and in the same way we find pour ce que= parce que.

P. 31, 1. I. le long, alongside. The subst. long is governed by par or pendant understood. We hâve also au long and tout du long in the same sensé.

** Allez avec les miens au long de ce rivage."

(Tristan, Fanthée, v. 6.) "Allez tout du long du ruisseau." (Quoted by Littxé.)

1. 9. poussa, pushed (into their fastenings). guichet^ hère frame-work.

Lu. lui firent peu cC accueil, gave her very little of a (cordial) greeting. Accueil without an epithet is always used in a favourable sensé ; sec above, p. 29, L «5 ; thus ;

•*A quel étrange ofl5ce, amour, me réduis-tu? "Dg faire accueil au vice, et chasser la vertu !"

(Rotrou, Venceslasy l. 2.)

1. «8. avait beau protester, protested in vain. The idiomatic expression avoir beau means avoir beau champs beau temps, belle occasion, etc. See Littré, s. v. beau (remark no. i). The force is accordingly that of an irony. tout son avoir, ail her property; note the infinitive used substantively as is frequently the case in French, thus **il en perdit le boire et le mangera (Hamilton, Chevalier de Grammont.)

P. 31, L 13. assignations, money- warrants. Gold and silver specie being very scarce in Russia, pa}Tnents are usually made in kopecks, 100 of which make a paper-rouble, and in assignations or warrants for 5, 10, «5, 50 and 100 roubles.

L 10. quelle soit, that she is ; note the use of the subjunctive on account of the hypothetical clause.

P. 33, 1. 1. à leur respiration = par leur...

L 6. descendit du poêle ; in Russia the peasants often sleep, without imdressing, on the stoves.

1. 9. en fit aussitôt les préparatifs =fit. . .les préparatifs du manger,

1. II. le pot au stchi, the pot used for containing the stchi (a kind of soup made with fermented cabbage and sait méat) ; the prepos. à is used to mark the end or destination of the substantive. Le pot au stchi=the stchi-pot.