à notre sujet, about us

135. n. se tenaient assises, remained seated. 19. une seconde, for an instant

136. 1. les traits tendus d'émotion, herfeatures tense with émotion.

28. Son visage, etc. His visage 7vas made up oftwo disparate éléments : a protubérant forehead, ronnded cheekbones, a round nose; then y prqjecting^ bristling, glued together in /tard wisps, t/ie eyebrows, t/ie moustache, t/ie short, scanty beard pointed straight out.

137. 3. Cette figure de reître, faite de flèches et de rondaches. This face, made up of shafts (eyebrows etc.) and bosses (forehead etc.) likc that of an old trooper.