Hors de sa portée. Beyond Jds reach

8. — 1. Il s'était exalté. He was carried away with a 'pa&sion. — La Pasta (1798-1865) was an Italian opera-.singer.— Mademoiselle Mars (1799-1847) was a famous actress of the Théâtre Français.

14. Il lui avait pris des envies furieuses. He had been seized wiih an uncontrollable désire.

19. Tendant la main. Stretching oui the hand. Tendre la main is, to hold oui the hand; hence, to ask alms, to beg. On p. 62, 1. 18, this same expression means to sJiake hands tcith a persan.

9.— 10. Fit réparer. The French often use Ihe verb faire as an auxiliary, and thus followed by an iufinitive it means io order, to get, to hâve, to cause.

21. Fait la cuisine et le ménage. Attends to the cooking and the Iwusekeejmig .

22. Métayère. Farmer's wife. A métayer (Low Lat. medietarius, formed from medietas, English ' moiety ') is a farmer who pays the owner of the land a certain proportion of the produce for rent, and keeps the rest himself. As the uame implies, the proportion is usually one half.

23. La jument poulinière . . . faisait les courses nécessaires. The farmer's breeding-mare did the necessary errands.

29. Montée en croupe. Mounted behind her farmer or ploughman.

lO. — 2. Faisait scandale. Oave rise to many remarks.