avec un recueUlement attendri, 'in soilened 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 ^^ partitive genitive.

13. peut-être n*7 avait-il. When a sentence begins -mùi peut-être^ aussii du moins, &c. , the order of words is inverted as in an interrogative sentence. Eve § 1 1 a.

14. Mors qu» liherat habetur lihertas, 'death that delivers is counted as freedom.*

18. Pour mon malheur, ' unluckily for me.' 34. en place, ' in office. *

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3. n se pourrait ! * could such a thing be I ' 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 ch&teau, *statement of the castle accounts.* hottes de chanvre, * bundles of hemp.*