ces jours prochains, within the nextfew days

17. vous êtes seule à l'approcher, you are the only one who approctches him,

134* 2. à notre sujet, about us,

135» II. se tenaient assises, r^»f a/Vf ^^/jAi/tail l^ une aûcoadtffor an instant.

136. I. les traits tendus d'émotion, her features tense wiih émotion.

28. Son visage, etc. His visage wasmadeup oftwo disparate éléments: a protubérant forehead^ rounded ckeekbones, a round nose; then^ darting forth^ bristîing^ gltied together in kard wisps, the eyebrowSy the moustache, the short, scanty beard aimed straight forward.

137 3. Cette figure de reltre, faite de flèches et de rondaches. Thisface, made up of shafts (eyebrows, etc.) and bosses (forehead, etc.) like that of an oid trooper,

7. débordants, /r^^^/*«^, bushy. — 8. plisser, wrinkîe, contracta