y tenir, wait, hold ouu 27. volontaire, resolute

* Hatzf eld à. Darmestetter, Dictionnaire Général de la Langue Française.

7. I. Méridional, Southerner, inkabitant of the Midi, or South of France.

10. Il gardait quelque chose d'eux, he retained some of their characteristics.

12. Il avait leur corps de cavaliers solides, he had their robuste horseman-like form.

24. Referendar Examen, bar examination. 26. eut un rire saccadé = laughed harshly.

28. licence en droit, bar exatnination, the French équivalent of the Referendar Examen.

S» 1. En effet, well, now that I think of it. Thèse words indicate that he has just recalled something which he had neglected to do or say.

1 2. s'imposant, forcing itself upon them.

20. Toujours bien affaissé, very mue h broken, I suppose. Toujours, like the German immer, has often an interrogative value hardly translatable into English.

25. à moi, my own. The use of the disjunctive hère indicates reproach and sorrow.

9* 6. fêlée, broken.