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Page 85, 1. 18. qu'on me l'amène . . . rapporte, " I must hâve him dead or alive ". Note the force of thèse two verbs: amener (from mener, to lead), " to bring " a person or animal (that can ■walk) ; apporter (from porter, to carry), " to bring" that which has to be carried, e.g. any thing, and in this case, a dead body.

Page 86, 1. 5. dès demain, no later than to-morrow: dès le ynatin, first thing in the morning; dès aujourd'hui, this ver}- day; also henceforth.

8. j'entends, je veux, I inean, I insist. Note "j'entends que vous le lui disiez ", I mcan you to say it to him ; "j'entends que vous le lui dites ", I hear you saying it to him.

Page 87, 1. 8. les barreaux de ta cage. Louis XI kept in a dungeon of the Castle of Loches, iron cages invented, it is said, by Cardinal La Balue (vvho was himself confined in one for more than eleven years). According to some, they were too small for a man of ordinary height to either stand or lie dovvn. In his memoirs, however, Comines (who was iniprisoned eight months in one of them) says they were eight feet broad and one foot above a man's stature. They were afterwards removed to the Bastille.