Au pas de charge — At a quick step

Nous avons manqué d' ensemble — We failed to act in concert.

134. Cornélia. — The personage that présents herself most naturally to the mind hère is Cornélia, the Roman matron, daughter of Scipio Africanus and mother of the Gracchi. The authors may hâve had in their mind the fortitude of Cornélia, the wife of Pompey, as portrayed in Corneille's tragedy, La Mort de Pompée.

136. iV<;:(/!s'— Artless. If thc i)riinitive sensé of naïf is kept 111 raiud it will scarcely ever be iieeessary to use the same word in English. It is derived from the Latin no.tivus, and means primitively, native — that is, that bas corne by birth, inborn, innate, natural.