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par exemple, indeed! or Fd like to know

3. le petit Poncet, Tom Thumb, the title of a popular French fairy taie.

Page 30. — I. m'allait très bien, was very beconting to me.

2. Jndith avec Holopheme. Judith, a Jewish heroine, risked her life by going to the tent of Holophemes, commander of the Assyrian army, then invading the country: she eut off his head and her townsmen defeated his army with great slaughter; see Bible, apocryphal book "Judith."

Page 33. — I. en revanche, as an offset, on the contrary, 2. révolte . . . révolution. On the storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, " It is a revolt," said Louis XVI. " No, Sire," replied the duke of Liancourt, " it is a révolution."

Page 23. — I. en le regardant en dessous, looking mischie-

vously (or askance) at him.

Page 24. — I. course désordonnée, wild chose. 2. qui l'envoyait promener, who sent her about her btuiness; cf. page 16, note i.

Page 25. — I. Ohl que si! Oh, y es he wUl; strong affirmative after a négative.

2. en savoir très long sur son compte, to know a great deal about him.

3. était en tiers entre nous, was tKc tViud 'w out co'wv.'^wvr^-

Page 36. — I. Kant (1724-1804), Fichte (1762-1814), Schellio^ (1775-1854), abstruse German philosophers. — pataugé, floundered.

2. n'iraient point sur les brisées de, would not hunt in the préserves of or encroach upon the domain of.

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