Cire à cacheter, ‘ sealing-wax

8. — Si tu venais à ouvrir- ‘If you chanced toopen.’ Cf. the Eng. phrase ‘ How did you corne to get the prize,’ where ‘corne to’ like the Fr. venir d=happen {arriver).

12. — Prisonnière de Pignerol. The name of a story which de Maistre began, but never completed.

18 —De ma première jeunesse. ‘From early boyhood.’

29. — Je m’en tire S’en tirer, to draw one’s self away or ont, to extricate one’s self. Eender, ‘ I rarely tear myself away,’ ‘leave the spot.’