CHAPTER V

Page 49. 1. la veille au matin: the morning before. — 2. des bandes de lard : strips of bacon. — 3. plus on regardait, plus il vous manquait de choses : the more y ou looked, the more things y ou missecL Note the use of on and vous hère together.

Page 50. 1. Nous antres enfants : omit autres in translation. — 2. avant la nuit close : bef ore dark. — 3. Voilà bien les enfants :

that's children ail over ; that's just the way with children.

Page 51. 1. conseil : council-chamber.

Page 52. 1. par le petit vasistas ouvert : through the little open window in the door ; such a window is sometimes called a casement. — 2. quinquet: Argand lamp. Argand invented it about 1789, but Quinquet manufactured it and gave it his name. " By means of a hollow wick and a glass chimney, a strong, clear light is produced by placing the name between two currents of air. " — 3. Wurmser : Count von Wurmser was born in Alsace in 1724. He was made a gênerai in the Austrian army in 1787. In the wars between Austria and the French Republic he achieved some successes on the Rhine ; but he is chiefly famous for the crushing defeats he suffered at the hands of Napoléon in Italy. He died in 1797.

Page 53. 1. j'allais toujours mon train : I kept on eating. The sentence gets its meaning f rom the context.

Page 54. 1. à la basque : to the coat-tail.

Page 55. 1. serré : oppressed, bursting. — 2. fâché : vexed, impatient. — 3. à sa République du diable : of her old Republic.