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

83. — 7. Comme dit le poète. La Fontaine, the author of the Fables. The second verse in its complète f orm is :

Ah! ai mon cœur osait encoi*e se renflammerl

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

19. Mignon, one of the characters in Gk>ethe's Willielm Meister; a charming young girl, whose fate is pathetic.

85.— 5. tOn en mangerait. > Familiar and fig. : One could eat it.

10. Comme elles s'enlevaient sur le ciel! How they wcre set off against the sky t