On me fait partout mauvaise mine, " Every where they

frown upon me."

12. — 11. S fallait commencer par, "You should hâve begun by telling me that. "

14. Normandie, Normandy, a former province of France lying along the seaboard of the English Channel. It was taken from the English in 1104 by Philip Augustus. In area it correaponded approximative^ to the modem departments of Seine-Inférieure, Eure, Orne, Calvados, and La Manche, its chief town being Caen.

14- Beauce, a district of France, partly in the departments of Loir-et-Cher and Eure-et-Loire, of which the chief town is Chartres.

19. les joues de l'Aurore, lit. "the cheeks of dawn," in tbis sentence meaning really "the morning sky."