CHAPTER IV

17 2 Laissons jaser la plume de lfme Henry, let Mrs. Henry's pen speak now.

17 19 Le flux et le reflux, the rising tide and the ebb-

tide.

21 8 Un Berlingot, a single-seated carnage .

21 9 Qui auraient pu servir de monture au héros de

Cervantes, who could hâve disputed the honor of serving as a steed to Cervantes' hero (Don Quixote) .

22 11 La vue oVun toit de chaume, the view of a

thatched cottage.

22 24 Une de ces après-midi chauffées à blanc, one of

those af ternoons at white-heat.

23 22 Fil de la Vierge, air thread. Referring to the

French legend that the Virgin Mary in spinning lets drop the fine white threads we see in the autumn air.

24 22 Par une échancrure de la côte, through an open-

ing on the shore.

26 9 ie chemin des écoliers, the longest way around.

26 10 En flânant, loitering.

27 3 Champollion, celebrated French savant who de-

ciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphics.