C'est par trop fort, that is really toofoolish

Page 22. — 1. Mes jambes flageolaient un peu sous moi, my legs trembled a little. 2. je me faisais pitié à moi-même d'être si bête que cela, I was an object of pity to my self for being so foolish. 3. prendre l'air, to breathe some fresh air. 4. des grappes de raisin, bunches of grapes. 5. il la regardait, he was looking at her. Give full force of the imperfect.

6. le gaillard d'arrière, the quarter-deck. 7. il y avait de quoi pâlir, there was good cause for being pale. 8. Ah ça! Hère now.

Page 23. — 1. ces chiens d'avocats qui sont là comme cinq morceaux de roi, those accursed lawyers who are there like five pièces of a king. (Referring to the five Directors.) 2. pas grand'chose, allez, not much, I assure you. The apostrophe in grand' chose, grand*1 mère, grand"* messe, etc., is incorrect in modem French, with regard to etymology. Grand, coming from Latin grandis, which had the same form in the masculine and the féminine, was not written grande in Old French with a féminine noun, but grand. The grammarians of

the : • i u.is Omit*

|. .4 même pis trop bons,