minotiers : managers ofthe steam-mill

28. laissez-moi, que je le regarde: let me look at it. A mixed construction, partaking of the poetical and the humorous. Compare voyons voir^ que je voie^ pour que je regarde^ in Le Misanthrope et r Auvergnat,

29. personne ne prit sa suite. Que voulez-vous? he had no successor, Why should he ?

30. cochiès i packetSy passenger-boats ; now superseded by the railroad.