Percée à jour — Riddled sothat the light showed through

L'arme au bras. — See note p. 16.

Il s'agit de tirer notre peau cTici — The tliing is to get away from hère alive. The word ^>6«y^, literally skin, is found in many familiar phrases in the sensé of life or person ; asfai?'e bon marché de sa peau, to hold one's life cheap. As to the varions farms of s'agir de, they occur so frequently that it has seemed snperfluous to notice them, but the learner is recommended not to fall into the habit of using one stereotyped form of translation for this verb.

8ur les bras — On our hands.

C'est bien TU — Ail right, or, more literally, That s well decided.

38. Un pendule — A penduliim. Notice that pendule in this sensé is masculine ; une pendule, a clock, is really for une {liorloge à) piendule.

Il me regarda d'un œil louche, et, toyant que j'étais sans malice — He gave me a suspicions look, and, seeing that I meant no harm.