comme il Vest. Le hère is a neuter pronoun

1. 18. de rêgoïsme. This is the principle from which La Rochefoucauld (1613 — 1680) started when he wrote his celebrated but distressing Maximes. Notice that manœuvre, fem., is the abstract substantive (manœuvring, intrigue, etc.).

1. 2 2 . importe à la pensée, is worth bringing our thoughts to work upon.

1. 23. en savait... assez = savait assez de choses or de vérités ; as we should say "he knew enough about it."

1. 28. Sa conversation avec le mtifti (ïxora. the Arab. moufti='hç.-w\\Q gives a décisive answer [fetwa'] on a point of law). See Thiers.