tout en se conduisant, whilst behaving

1. 4. ils ne le sont pas— ils ne sojit pas cela. Le neuter; see above.

bons mots, witticisms.

1. 7. Le pain dérobé... Comp. Proverbs xiii. il, "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished."

1. 9. mullah or mollah (Arab. maulà=\orû. ormaster); hence the Word muley, or better maulâ-ï, which précèdes the names of the emperors of Morocco, and is erroneously looked upon as a proper name.

1. 13. ait armé le bras. Notice the idiomatic use of the subjunctive. The indicative is cmployed cnly when the affirmation is beyond the shadow of a doubt.

n'empêcha pas que sir Sidney Smith n'ar^'êtât... The second ne hère is not a négative but a dubitative adverb. Sir Sidney Smith (1764 — 1840) obliged Bonaparte to raise the siège of St John of Acre on the 20th of May, 1799.

1. 17. au général Berihier (Alexandre, 1753 — 1815), marshal of France (1804), prince of Wagram (1809); one of Napoleon's ablest officers.

I.'i8. il causait de tout, he chatted on ail sorts of subjects. de hère is the Latin préposition ^(? = about.

1. 21. prendre V Europe à revers, journey through Europe in a contrary direction, liter. to take Europe in the rear.