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Page 2, line 22. -appointé. Remember appointments= salary,-—1l a reçu ses appointments, He has received his salary. Render, ‘given a salary at the rate of.’

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Page 2, line 28.—où dorment. Note the grace and melody of French style, particularly the effect of the change of construction by which the unqualified verb in the dependent sentence is placed at the beginning rather than the end. A similar effect is secured in the paragraph ending 34, 8.

Page 2, line 29.—Périgord. One of the old divisions of the ancient Province of Guienne, now included in the departments of Dordogne and Gironde. (Lat. 45°, long. 1°.) In Périgord Mme. de Peyrebrune was born.

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