reporté sur lui, 'transferred to him

26. le grand habit de veuve, *the deepest wîdow's mournîng,* or *the full widow's costume,' literally, *the fuU dress of a widow.* les coiifes et les voiles, <cap and veil.'

7. sainte Clotilde. The best known Saint Clotilda is the wife of Clovis, King of the Franks, who helped to convert him to Christianitj; but, as she had several children, this hardly seems to refer to her.