II. Le temps de causer, after stoppingfor a tinte to talk

77« 7. ionchttB^jackstraws,

14. tanguant à larges enjambées, lurching forward with long sirides,

78* 27. brigadier, Corporal (in the gendarmery) a noncommissioned officer commanding a detachment.

27. les yeux bridés etc., his eyelids tensefy half closed, The attitude of a man constantly on the watch.

28. deux mèches de poils jaunes barrant la figure ramassée, two wisps of yellow moustache making a straight Une across his small features,

79. 7. Pas Prussien, tout de même ? Anyhow^ youWe not a Frussian, are y ou ?

9. L'homme eut un sourire vite supprimé, the man smiled but quickly repressed his feeling,