CHAPTER XV

Page 161. 1. dans les siècles des siècles : in sœcula sœculorum^ for ever. — 2. en redoublant de marcher: Compare redoubler de jambe». Le. marcher plus vite.

Page 162. 1. tic- tac : tick-tick, second.

Page 163. 1. pour deux liards de cœur: a cent's worth of courage. — 2. kougelreiter: pistolets de cavalerie. — S, un jour de bonheur : See page 138.

Page 164. 1. Ses tresses à rubans : Perhaps tresse à rubans is a translation of the German Bandtresse, and so means a kind of lace or ornament for the head.

Page 166. 1. un honune ne vaut que par ses connaissances : a man's worth depends upon his knowledge. — 2. jusqu'au fond des entrailles : to the bottom of my heart.

210 MADAME THERÂSB.

Faob 168. 1. le bon droit : Compare good rightê.

Paos 169. lé duvet: feather-bed.— 2. le bois délit: thfifootboeid.

CHAPTER XVL

Page 171. 1. Mbretaohe : sabretasche ; a leathern case or pooket eospended from the sword-belt of a dragoon.

Pagb 173. 1. recommander: to intercede for. — 2. le garde forestier : the forester. His duty is to see to the preservation of the forests. He \a also called garde des bois.

Paob 174. 1. Vous êtes des fous de vons faire du mauvais ■ans : yon are foolish to worry.

Paob 175. 1. à leurs trousses; at their heels. — 2. le 8 nivôsOi an n : December 28, 1793. The events of the war mentioned in this letter are historicaL

Paob 177. 1. les oonventiomiels : members of the Convention, the legislative body of the French Republic.

Paob 178. 1. ambulances ; field-hospitals.

Paob 179. 1. rebouoler: to strap up again.

Paob 180. 1. Adjugé : A word used when a thing is sold at auction — gone. Here it may be translated ours, — 2. Landreoies: A town in Nord, the north-eastern department of France.

Paob 182. 1. au pas de course : on the ran. Compare au pas de charge^ page 124. — 2. quitter la partite: to give up the game.— 8. couper, trancher : to cut ofF, to slice oft.

Paob 183. 1. Plohegru: Charles Pichegru entered the artilleiy service of the Revolutionary army in 1700, and rose rapidly to the position of commander-in-chief of the army of the Rhine in 1793. He was arrested in 1797 for plotting with the royalist party, but escaped. Later he formed a plot against Napoleon's life, was captured, imprisoned, and found strangled in his cell April 6, 1804.

Paob 185. 1. les flaques de boue éclataient autour de nous comme des obus à chaque pas: at every step the muddy water «plashed up about us like bursting shells.

Pagb 186. 1. etfaré: beside himself. — 2. M aemenant oomma un bienheureux : jumping about in frantio deliglit

Page 187. 1. Hé I la grosse mère 1 la Jolie fille I par ici 1 Hey, my good woman 1 my pretty girl I this way. — 2. il a Talr bon enfant* he looks like a good fellow.

Paob 189. 1. nooe: oelebratiQn« banquet

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