dès le matin, that (very) morning

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5, droit d'aubaine, i. e., the ruler has the right to the property of unnaturalized foreigners who die on his territory.

Page 110. — I. beau ténébreux, melancholy lover, i. e., one who is constantly complaining of his hard lot in life.

2. George Sand (1804-76), the nom de plume of the Baroness Dudevant, a great novelist of the Romantic school of French literature, and an excellent painter of nature and primitive manners.

3. Salvator Rosa, a celebrated Italian painter of the seventeenth century.

Pag'e 111. — I. avaient dû faire, must hâve made. 2. je ne m'en fis pas faute, I did notfail to do so.

Page 112. — I. se mettre à la nage, to swim. 2. ne tenez pas ... à ce que e me noie, do not însist on my drowning myself.

Page 113. — I. On le laisse faire, we let him alone. 2. encore s'en aviser, only to know how to do it.

Page 114. — I. il ne tarda pas à s'apercevoir, he soon perceived.

2. Il n'en était plus qu'à quelques pieds, he was only afewfeet from it.

Page 115. — I. C'était véritablement à n'y pas tenir, lit., **one could really not hold in"; trans., one coicld not help laughing.

2. une nymphe ivre de raisin ; an allusion to the f amiliar paintings representing Bacchanalian scènes.