aussi Uen, ' and indeed

29. avec un recueillement attendri, <in softened méditation.'

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I. je ne le devrais point, ' I hâve no reason to do so/ literally, * I should not owe it.* Le stands for regretter»

6. on accepterait de mourir, * one would willingly receive death.* De mourir is hère the partitive genitive.

13. peut-être n'y avait-iL When a sentence begins ynih. peut-êtrit aussi t du moins, &c , the order of words is inverted as in an interrogative sentence. Eve § 1 1 a.

14. Mors qu» libérât habetur Ubertas, *death tliat delivers is counted as freedom.'

18. Pour mon malheur, ' unluckily for me.* 24. en place, 'in office.*

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3. n se pourrait ! * could such a thing be ! ' Note the use of the conditional in an indignant exclamation. Eve § 178 (2).

5. les planchettes, *the tallies,* explained in the note. Similar tallies were once used in England for keeping the Exchequer accounts.

6. comptabilité du Ohàteau, *statement of the castle accounts.* bottes de <^hanvre, ' bundles of hemp.*