monsieur le curé, your Révérence

4. n'en admirait que mieux, admired ail the more {on tliat account).

5. le curé ... de s'exalter, the priest instant ly worked himself up. Note "historical" infinitive indicating eagerness.

Page 10. — I. aux prises avec la vie, in the battle of life,

2. Tibère . . . Vespasien, Tiberius . . . Vespasian, Roman emperors of the first century, of diametrically opposite characters. Tacitus pictures the former as cruel and détestable.