lui en voulut un peu de, ' was a little hurt at

1 1. le lui auraient fait distin^er, ' would hâve made him pick it eut.' The direct object oî faire being the infînitive of a transitive verb, distinguer, the pronoun governed by faire is put in the dative lui, according to the regular construction in such cases ; le is the direct object of distinguer.

21, 22. ce. ..galère, ' what he had gone to that galley for.' The allusion is to a famous scène in Molière's play Les Fourberies de Scapin. Scapin the valet wants to get a sum of money out of his master's father, old Géronte, and hits upon the device of telling Géronte that his son who had stepped on board a Turkish galley at the captain's invitation has been carried ofï by the Turks and will only be restored on payment of a ransom. The father's constant exclamation, * Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère? ' What on earth did he go on board the ship for?* has become proverbial and is constantly applied to persons who hâve got into trouble of their own making. In the présent case it is especially appropriate, as the misadventure of Zéro, if misadventure there was, would be due, like tliat of Scapin's young master, to visiting a ship.