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Paob 50. 1. Noos autres enfants : omit atOres in translation. — 2. avant la nnlt close : before dark. — 8. Voilà bien les enfanta.* that's children all over ; that's just the way with children.

Paob 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 flame between two currents of air.'' — 3. "Wurmeer : Count von Wurmser was bom in Alsace in 1724. He was made a general in the Austrian army in 1787. In the wars between Austria and the French Republic he achieved some successes on the Rhine ; but he ia chiefly famous for the crushing defeats he suffered at the hands of Napoleon in Italy. He died in 1797.

Pagx 53. 1. J'allais toujours mon train : I kept on eating. The sentence gets its meaning from the context.

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

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