Eugène, see Introduction, page vi

5. Swift, Prior, Atterbury, well-known names in English literature, contemporaries of Bolingbroke.

6. Voilà ce qu'il S'agit de . . ., This is what the queen must be made to understand.

7. emporté à coups de canon, gai7ted by shot and shell (" canonshots").

Page 7. — 1. qu'il ne . . . l'idée, that the idea never gets into their heads (i.e. of le vulgaire, "the crowd" of ordinary men, not "the vulgar").

2. Il est quelqu'un = 77 y a quelqit'un. — j'en conviens (en convenir de), I admit.

Page 8. — 1. me donne . . . chiquenaude, snaps his finger in my face.

2. Vous jugez si . . ,}yoic ?nay judge whether . . . In this sense si stands after the verb without a comma; in the sense of "if" (condition) it is preceded by a comma.