quitte à si bon compte, * let off so cheaply

21. Il avait beau, 'In vain did he . . .' Avoir beau is ironical and dliptical, for avoir beau temps pour, * To hâve a Jine opportunity but ail to no purpose. '

33. qu'il ne se connaissait pluSy * quite unusual with him now.'

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16. s'échappaieni {i.e. which actually àbsolutely did); hence the Indicative although preceded by le seul. See chap. ii. p. 9, 1. 14, note.

28. pour V apposition des scellés, ' for afi&xing the seals.'

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4. si diligent que fût le maire, * and in spite of the mayor's prompt action.' Si . . . que is équivalent to quelque . . . qu^ (whatever) ; hence the Subjunctive/^.

5. et suspendu au moyens de courroies. For description of a similar kind of country conveyance, see Les Misérables vol. i. (School Edition) p. 126.

10. suant, soufflant, reniflant. A^in La Fontaine's fable La Coche et la Mouche, q. v.

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29. patronne, for * patron saint.' There being a saint's day for every day in the year, every child in France is placed under the protection of the saint whose ' day ' it is at the date of its birth.

30. La (/emie (/'' /i€M/^eMres = Neuf heures et demie sonnaient . . , La demie (/. ) is hère a noun.

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25. çavousfait toutde même quelque chose, 'it rilesyouallthesame . . f