Fais battre le rappei—Let the drums beat to arms

29, Ventre à terre—At full speed.

Se repliaient—Fell back. :

30, Forvertz.—The correct form of the German word is Vorwärts, Forward.

31, Faisait serrer les rangs—Made them close the ranks. 33. Houlans.—The more correct form whlans is used on p. 49.

34, De distance en distance—Along the line, at intervals.

Une chanson qui vous donnait la chair de poule—A song that made your flesh creep. The author alludes to the JHarseillaise. See also note to p. 97.

35, Acharnés—Excited. The real meaning and force of acharner and s'acharner ought to be well fixed in the mind, as all renderings of these words in English are unsatisfactory. Acharner was primitively a term of falconry, of which so many have entered into general usage. It meant originally to put flesh on the lure in order to excite the bird ; hence to flesh, to excite violently. The radical char is the same as chair, flesh.

Cassines—Hovels, huts. Cassine commonly means a pleasurehouse in the country.

Guévoir—Horse-pond. Guévoir is often used in some of the eastern provinces of France instead of abreuvoir.

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36. Percés à jour—Riddled so that the light showed through. L'arme au bras.—See note p. 16.

Il s’agit de tirer notre peau d'ici—The thing is to get away from here alive. The word peau, literally skin, is found in many familiar phrases in the sense of life or person ; as faire marché de sa peau, to hold one's life cheap. As to the various forms of s'agir de, they occur s0 frequently that it has seemed superfluous to notice them, but the learner is recommended not to fall into the habit of using one stereotyped form of translation for this verb.

Sur les bras—On our hands.

SE 1 bien vu—Al right, or, more literally, That's well deeided,

38, Un pendule—A pendulum. Notice that penduie in this sense is masculine ; une pendule, a clock, is really for wne (horloge à) pendule.

Il me regarda d'un œil louche, et, voyant que j'élais sans malice—He gave me a suspicious 100k, and, seeing that I meant no harm.

39, Seigneur Dieu /—Thank God! See note to p. 60.

On finit par se rendre maître du Jfeu—They at last succeeded in subduing the fire.

; 40, Polonaise. —A short coat adorned with ornaments called rogs.

41, Pour vous rendre mes devoirs.—An old formula of courtesy, here equivalent to ‘It shall be done as you desire. ” Rendre ses devoirs à quelqu'un—is to pay one's res)ects to a person, to wait upon.

42, Troublée— Agitated. Peine in the next line means trouble, but elle avait de la peine should rather be translated ‘‘ she found it difficult.” Compare note to p. 8.

Le mouvement que dut se donner l'oncle pour se rendre à l’'appel—And the way my uncle had to bestir himself to answer all the calls ; literally, the stir uncle had to give himself. Dut is the preterit of devoir, very frequently used before an infinitive in a sense analogous to that which it has in this senterce,

Éclats—Splinters, fragments. This is the primitive sense of this word, the others are figurative ; éclater means to burst, whence the ideas of sudden and loud noise, and, by a natural transition, those of flashing or brilliant light-—whence other figurative meanings.

44, Ii tombe :nai—He comes at the wrong time.

Elle a reçu son compte, . . . et c'est bien fait /—Her case is settled, . . . and it serves her right.