Non pas ! N'ot at ail

3. Il fallait bien s'occuper, a man can^t be altogether idle (" has to do something").

4- j'y gagne encore, and made something by it af ter ail ("I had the best of the bargain af ter ail ").

5. whig, the war party (démocratie), tory, the conservative party (aristocratie). — que je devais être, that I could not but be.

6. orages, figurative like tourmentes, tempests, storms. orages de tribune, stormy debates; the tribune is the platform of the French Parliament from which members address the house.

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Pâff« 6. — I. je tiens à rester, I am anxious to stay.

2. grand seigoeur journaliste. In such quasi compounds the qualifying noun yVA'tm'j the principal. "A joumalist Lord," an mrùioerat wà» is also a Mrwspafer man.

y. miniatère whig, cf. the preceding ... tke WAig minisiry.