retient, the subject {la loi) understood

3. en, expletive pron. particle : Edgr. § 250, c; Wh. § 85, b.

4. purger sa condamnation, serve ont oné's sentence (in prison).

Page 68. — 1. En . . . Cher, pretty ex pensive things ! en referring to souliers ; cher, Edgr. § 166; Wh. § 56, d.

2. du train dont il va, at the rate lie is going, the way he travels.

Pa^re 69. — 1. The Strait of Malacca, between the Malay peninsula and the Island of Sumatra.

Page 70. — I. échappait, would escape : Edgr. § 308, 1; Wh. § "9, b.

Page 71. — 1. En fin de compte, after all> in short (lit. ' as an end of the account ').

2. qu'il n'aurait jamais deviné, without ever divining, or surmising; que . . . ne = sans que : Edgr. § 403, b; Wh. § 221, c.

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Page 72. — 1. Singapore, city on the south side of the island of Singapore (off the southern extremity of Malacca).