mettant à couvert,,, shielding

1 18. faire le ciaritaUe, play the part of a charitable person. isa sergents, bailiffs, inferior law-officers (from the L. servirê^. 191. ,.,de Pespoir d'une bonne lippk—par Vespoir.,, une bonnelippée^

a good haul, liter. a good feast; etym. lippe=iht lower lip, when it protrudes too much.

133. suivant du métier, etc., acting up to the solemn oath which they took when they entered upon their profession.

135. ^en étant saisis, having taken possession of iU Saisir^ to grasp ; sâ saisir de, to take possession o£

137. ,..non sans couleur, encor qii injustement, not without an appearance of reason, although unjustly. encor que =^ quoique. Note that encor is put hère, on account of the mètre, instead of the trisyllable encore,

134. le pistolet, etc. Allusion to a passage in le Menteur (il. 5). 135* ces traits d'*écolier, those school-boy tricks.