A la garde de Dieu ! Let us leave that with Godl

88. — 7. Comme dit le poète, La Fontaine, the author of the Fables. The second verse in its complète foimis :

Ahl si mon cœur osait encore se renflammeri

84.— 10. Arpentait, Lit. : to survey, but frequently used for marchait^ transi, hère : walked up and down.

19. Mignon, one of the characters in (ïoethe's Wilhelm Meister; a charming young girl, whose fate is pathetic.