ce fut plus fort que moi, I couîdnU kelp iu

Page 82. — i. plus, for // n^y avait plus ; plus is regularly négative when there is no verb.

Page 84* — i. huitième ; supply classe.

2. pièce de conviction, évidence of the crime; hère, the pièce of paper with the fly.

Page 85. — ;. je ne le tins pas quitte à si bon marché, I did

not let htm off so easily.

Page 86« — i. à nous tenir ainsi sottement rigueur, in being so

foolishly obstinate.

Page 87* — i. était de la fête, was injhe party.

Page 90* — I. Les quarts. Many clocks in Europe strike the quarters and half hours ; hence, " les deux coups de la demie ", three Unes below.

Page 94. — i. autorité académique. Severe cases of discipline were referred to the "recteur" and the "inspecteur d'académie". See page 4, note 2.

2. pensum ordinaire. Pupils were usually given tasks to perform during their imprisonment.

3. Sur la paille humide. Prisons were formerly usually damp and the beds commonly were merely heaps of straw, so that être sur la paille humide came to mean "be in prison".

4. séquestre. In French schools imprisonment is no longer permitted as a punishment.

5. abat- jour, a screen or blind, so adjusted as to prevent prisoners from looking out or communicating with each other.

Page 95. — I. diable. The words ''diable'' as well as ''Dieu'\ are used in France with a freedom that we regard as improper, not to say profane ; " bon diable " simply means good fellow.

Page 96. — i. la tablette intérieure, inside shel/y fixed on the door under the ''Judas ". On this shelf the f ood was placed.

Page 97. — i. Plus, see page 82, note i.

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Page 103« — I. Liyingftone had been in Africa, eut off from ail communication with the outside world from 1869 to 1871 whçn he was found by H. M. Stanley.