Je ne serai pas reçu, ' I shall not pass

P. 15, 1. 13. Pliera. It being before the days of envelopes.

1. 30. Letter 6. He had escaped the École Polytechnique, and had been allowed, as a compromise, to enter a covmting-house.

P. 16, 1. 3. Pentecôte. Whitsuntide holidays.

1. 22. Intermédiaires does not hère = Eng, ' intermediaries,' but on the contrar}' means 'separating spaces,' ' inter\-als keeping two persons or places aloof from one another,'

1. 33. ItC7n, he uses the style of his counting-house work playfully.