Je. ..bien, * I should think so, indeed

18, qu'est-ce... avoir à, ' What can possess him to...*

30. invalide. The lighthouse-keeper was a retireil quarter-master.

32. file. ..nœuds, 'doing her twelve knots,' that is, twelve knots an hnur.

33. lieues. The lieiu on land is a distance under 3 miles; the lieue jnarine is about 3^ English miles.

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î. je t'attache... saucisses, ///. ' tie you up for the rest of your life by a rope of sausages,' obviously an extravagant and unlikely proceeding. The expression ne pas attacher ses chiens avec des sattcisses is commonly applied to a careful person, not given to extravagance. The proverl)ial phrase only occurs in the négative form.

3. du Havre. Le Havre is an important seaport town in the Department of Seine Inférieure, on the right bank of the Seine and so opposite Ilonfleur.

4. quand,,.plus, ' Even if he wanted to corne back, he could not now.' The conjunction çuand wiih. the conditional tense often has a concessive sensé (although) and may be represented in English by *even if.' Quand on découvrirait votre démarche^ on ne pourrait la blâmer^ • Even if your action were discovered, it could not be blamed.'

17. Brest. Brest, in the Department of Finistère, the extrême west of France, is the finest military port of France, and would naturally be familiar to a sailor of Normandy.

19. le bon Dieu, *God,' or * God in His goodness,' where, as perhaps hère, the adjective is not merely a regular epithet, as it often is in French.

21. allaient... cheville, 'Not to reach a man's ankle' is a proverbial expression in French denoting marked inferiority, like the English phrase, ' Not to touch him.'

22. nom d'une pipe. Nom de is a common form of asseveration, like tonnerre-, the appendage,/î}>^ or B?est, varies with the tastes of the speaker.

29. brasse. This word, unlike its usual équivalent 'fathom,' is used of horizontal length as well as of depth. It measures just over 5 English feet.

15. Il se... révolution, 'There took place within him a kind of révolution.' The word révolution carries more easily to the French ear than to the English the idea of a ' turning round.'

25. pourrait donner, ' might give,' lit. ' would give ' a philosophie dog (if he were to paint one).