en attendant mieux, whiîe waitingfor something better

Page 74. — i. vient de s'écouler, hasjust come to an end; mois hère does not necessarily mean a calendar month, unless he looks upon it as practically over.

a. être de, to be one of.

Page 75* — i. on respirait le frais, we were enjoying the fresh air, a. j'essaie, supply to be so.

208 NOTES IP. t«-«a.

Pagre 76* — x. que je n'ai pas volé, wkich I richly deserved. a. contre-partie, L e., an adventure of an opposite character.

3. pasteurs d'églogue, i. e., like shepherds in the eclogues of -Virgil, in which shepherds are represented as conversing with one

another on the charms of shepherd life.