Sans humeur. ‘ Without caprice (ill humor

21. — S’en fier à. Note the construction se fier à quelqu’un de quelque chose. Je me fie à lui du soin de mes affaires, 1 rely on him for looking after my affairs. * You may trust my imagination for that.’

32. — Clèveland. The référencé is to a story called Clèveland, ou le Philosophe anglais, pubhshed in 1732, written by the Abbé Prévost-d’Exiles, one of the most prolific writers of the eighteenth century. The ‘Abaquis ’ and ‘ Ruintons ’ figure in the novel.

84 2. — Par distraction, i e., from being inattentive to what

should employ my mind. ‘ Inadvertently.’

l7.--Q’expédition des Argonautes. An allusion to the mythical story of Greek heroes who, under command of Jason, set sail in the ship Argos to Colchis (to the S. W. of the Black Sea) in search of a golden fleece guarded by a sleepless dragon.