il s'est trouvé, there happened to be

3. au coup d'œil juste et prompt, quick to see things as they are.

4. le lui rend bien, pays lier back in the same coin (" returns her hatred with usury").

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5. leur est acquise, (is theira) = tkey havt gained the maj'ority.

6. son frère, Le. her half-brother, James Edward, son of King James II and Mary of Modena. Queen Ann was the offspring of the first marriage of the king, her mother being Anne Hyde, daughter of £arl Clarendou.

Pa^ 17. — I. aussi . . ., and so (almost the same as "hence").