Fie et bagues sauves. Life and rings safe, see

note page 29, 1. 21.

55. — 1. Son étemel Valmy, son sempiternel Jemappes. His eternal Valmy, his everlasting Jemappes.

Valmy (September 20), Jemxippes (November 6, 1792), the two first battles won by the French armies over the allied powers of Europe, shortly af ter the breaking out of the Révolution. The truly brilliant period of war and conquest, however, did not begin for France until a few years later, when Napoléon I oame upon the scène.

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56. — 5, Pour Vacguit de ma conscience. For conscience sake. Acquit, lit. : discharge.

59.— 3. Et du même coup il s'avisa que,,. And ail at once, he noticed that...

61. — 5. La philosophie d'Horatio, Befers to Shakespeare*s " Hamlet, " Act I, Se. V, after the apx>arition of the ghost of Hamlet*s father.

Horatio :

O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.

Uamlet :

éLnd therefore, as a stranger, give it welcome.

There are more things in heaven and earth,

[Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.