minotiers : managers of the steam-mill

28. laissez-moi, que je le regarde: let me look at it. A mixedl construction, partaking of the poetical and the humorous. Compar& voyons voir y que je voie^ pour que je regarde ^ in Le Misanthrope et V Auvergfiat.

29. personne ne prit sa suite. Que voulez-vous? he had nosuccessor. Why should he ?

30. coches: packetSy passenger-boats ; now superseded by the railroad.