Informations, 'enquiries,' 'investigations

L 14. Aux enquêtes, informations et examens. The omission of the article before inforviations and examens is a» exception to the gênerai rule.

L 24 ^S'affirme, ' betrays himself '; se dénonce., ' informs on himself. '

L 28. Nuances, ' slight peculiarities. '

L 30. Dont, 'in which.'

L 31. Esprit, ' ability, ' ' clevemess. '

Page 26, line 4. Sur, 'outof.'

1. 5. À leur ma' tresse, 'from their mistress.' Note the prep. ù, governed by voler in the sensé of 'from.' Cf. p. 24, 1. 21.

L 14 Tai la fièvre, 'I am very impatient.'

L 17. Que le coupable en est à ses 2^fe^ières armes, ' that

the culprit is but a novice '; en is quite idiomatic and may be omitted in translation. CL oh en est Vaffaire? 'How does the affair stand now ? '

L 19. Pourrait nous abuser, ' might deceive us. '

L 22. Pratiquée, 'made.'

L 24 Était-elle. The subject folio ws its verb hère on account of encore at the beginning of the clause in tlie preceding lin& Cf. p. 16, L 17.