monsieur le curé, your Révérence

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

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

Page 10. — 1. aux prises avec la vie, in the battle of life.

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