mon retour sur moi-même^ *my coming to myself again

1. 10. égorger, a stronger word than tuer, *to butcher'. ,, qui peut rû avoir pas tort, ' who may not be wrong', not * who cannot be wrong', which would be qui ne peut (pas) avoir tort.

1. 17. c'est parce que fy pensais, 'it is (just) because I did think ofit'.

1. 21. fy avais pourvu, *I had provided for that'. 1. 27. elle devait rapporter^ ' she was to bring back '.

1. 30. la juste rigueur des lois, Louis XIV. had published a decree in 1679, which was still in force at this time, i.e. 1765, condemning to death ail persons concerned in a duel, whatever the issue of the meeting might be.

1. 31. la juste rigueur. There is a scornful accent on juste here. Page 38.

1. 1. à qui conservait^ *to (the man) who preserved*. Notice this use of qui where the antécédent celui is omitted, and qui is attracted into the case in which celui would have been. Cf. Le bonheur appartient à qui fait des heureux.

1. 3. en^ lit. *of them'. projette^ from projeter ; notice the doubling of the consonant before e mute.