le seul penchant, for le penchant seul. Translate

the only man, man alone, one single man. 28. vos sacrés aïeux : for the place of sacré before the noun in lofty style cf. Racine's Mithridate, iii. i —

Faut-il (lue je me mette k vos sacrés genoux î In vulgar language the word, thus placed, is used as a blasphemy.

15. r. Tocat, 'Tokat,' in North - Eastern Asia Minor, 75 miles

south of the Black Sea.

3. Smiyme : on the west coast of Asia Minor, at the head of the gulf of the same name.