ni feu ni lieu, neither hearth nor home

3. auberge de la Belle-Etoile, under the open sky ; lit., '* the inn of the beautiful star."

Page 16. — I. fait l'effet, seems.

2. Honfleur is a small town at the mouth of the Seine opposite Havre.

Page 16. — I. Villerville is a small village situated a short distance west of Honfleur.

2. médiocrité dorée, comfortable circumstances ; an allusion to one of Horace's poems.

3. Ave, Maris Stella, Hail ! Star of the Sea ; the first words of a Roman Catholic hymn.

4. Le Havre, a very important seaport of northwestem France on the British Channel, is situated about 135 miles northwest of Paris.

5. Ingouville . . . Sainte-Adresse, both of which are suburbs of Havre, are situated on high cliffs overlooking the sea.

Page 17. — I. bercé dans le calme, rocked in the cradle ofthe sea,