en son... fille, ' whose maiden name vvas

9. Ronfleur. Ilontleur is a seaport town in the Department of Calvados, situaled on the left (south) bank of the estuary of the Seine.

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3. matelote. A matelote of fish is a stew in which the fish is eut into small pièces and cooked with onions, herbs, and red or white wine.

4. il fallait... grande, ' the door had to be wide open,' iïf. *it (the entrance) had to be large enough.'

20. qu'on ne le renvoyât, 'lest he should be sent back.' The French indefinite pronoun on is often best represented in English by the passive construction of the verb.

22. demanda... de, ' asked...in her most irritating falsctto.' 30. n ne... toi, ' Ile has never said as much against you,' //A *said as much of it.' There are many phrases in French where en used with a verb cannot be directly represented in lùiglish: somolimcs the use of ejt implies something aniiss, as in en vouloir à^ ' to owe a grudge ' ; en dire^ *to abuse.'

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4. je le sais, 'I know.' The neuter le 'it' can often not be directly represented in English.

17. et dont. ..porte, 'the door of which....* The conjunction et is used in French to join a relative pronoun with an adjective or participle, when both are descriptive of a noun ; as hère attenant à... et dont. In English such a construction is impossible; the conjunction is only used when two relative sentences are joined, not to join a relative

sentence with an epithet or descriptive adjective or participle. Thus English has 'a laundry which was attached and which,' or 'an adjoining laundry which,' but not *a laundry attached and which.'

19. la tête basse, ' with his head down.' In French a nominative or accusative absolute may be used, as hère, to describe an action of the subject or object of the sentence. // resta les yeux perdus, * He stood gazing fixedly.'

23. ce qui... nature, *and this proved that her natural disposition was not bad.'

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I. beaucoup... bien, 'much, but not always well.' The nearest équivalent proverb in English runs, 'Not wisely, but too well.'

9 — 14. large... éclatant. The loose construction of this sentence must be avoided in English ; it is made possible in French by the fréquent use in that language of the ' nominative absolute in apposition,' see note on p. 3, 1. 19.

10. tous les soleils^ 'every sun/ the sun, that is, of every part of the world.

14. la parole... éclatant, *his voice was résonant, and his laugh loud.'

«8. l'autre. The *other' is of course the actual océan, not the figurative one of married life.

32. grain. In ordinary usage ^aï« means a 'grain' or *seed,' in sailois' language a 'squall'; both meanings are présent in the use of the Word in this passage.

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«. le. The neuter pronoun le refers to the preceding statement, thaï owing to Zéro she suffered injury in her husband's affection.

4. n'en pouvait mais, ' could not help it.' mais is hère an adverb, representing the Latin magis, 'more,' and so used only in combination with pouvoirs je n'en peux mais, ' I can do no more,' and so, 'I can't help it.'

16. sous sa tente, 'within his tent,' like Achilles at the siège of Troy after he had been insulted by Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek host.

i\. n'avait pu échapper, 'did not escape,' lit. 'had not been able to escape.'

«7. c'était... nature, ' he was a thoroughly kind man,'

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