on a osé 1 she dared ! . . . On (L. Iiomo), being

essentiall}- indetinite, is ahvays used in French to avoid naming the doer of an action, and applies equally to the Ist, 2d, and 3d pei-sons, and to both genders and nnmbers ; the context hère clearly shows that Roger is speaking of his wife.

17. veillait, was sitting up : generally a sensé of anxietj' is attached to veiller. Cf. ' Xoctcs vigilantur amarœ ' (Ovid). Les nuits se passent dans la douleur.

27. le duc de Berry, Charles (1686-1714), Lonis XIY.'s third grandson, brother of the Duc de Bourgogne and the Duc d'Anjou, is chiefly remembered from his having married Marie Louise Elizabeth d'Orléans, the daughter of Philippe d'Orléans (Régent after Louis XIV. 's death), theu lifteen years of âge, who, having become a widow at nineteeu, died five years later from the excesses of ail kinds in whicîi she indulged, and to which calumny had added crimes which no évidence substantiated. The title of duc de Beriy has only been borne since by Charles X.'s second son, murdered by Louvel, 13th Februarj' 1820, at the âge of fort3'-two, and whose elder brother, the duc d'Angouléme (1775-1844) [having had no issue from his marriage with his cousin, Louis XVI. 's heroic and gifted daughter, l'Antigone Moderne (1778-1851)], acknowledged as heir to the throne the late Comte de Chambord, posthumous son of the duc de Berry.