padded/ quilted like a mattress. 4. weakened

Page 246. — 1. spent bail. 2. a Latin proverb : for oui* altars and firesides.

Page 256. — 1. violently oppress their heart. 2. stillness and repose dvveli in the fields of memory ! 3. powerless, insensible, apathetic : blasé, from the Greek fautaog (blaisos), distorted, impotent.

Page 266. — 1. clay. 2. glaïeul, gladiolus, or sword-grass.

Page 267. — 1. reflections. 2. sickles. 3. gui (prononcez ghi), misletoe. 4. céraste (from the Greek xêpc&s (lieras) horn), horned snake ; impur, foui, unclean. 5. larvae, spectres.

Page 270. — 1. clarion. 2. vin e-b ranch. 3. wedge, c angle.' 4. prance, rear. 5. stables, ' stud.' 6. e haft,' handle.

Page 282. — 1. he longed to become a believer in the true God.

Page 286. — J. clashing. 2. pale or stake.

Page 296. — 1. artful. 2. chausse-trape, coltrop, an instrument made with four spikes, so that whichever way it falls to the ground, one of them points upwards. 3. spits, spikes. 4. amulets, charms.

Page 298. — î. strand, or shore. 2. are scattered. 3. increase.