je montai chez eux : / went up to their apartment

31. que nous donnaient à tous les portes de Paris fermées: which we ail felt at the closing of the gâtes of Paris ; à tous is appositive of nous. Compare Tartarin de Tarascon^ chap. 8, note 14.

32. comment se serait-il douté de quelque chose ? how could he hâve suspected anything?

33. le roi de Rome. This was the title of the son of Napoléon I. He was only four years old at the time of his father*s downfall. He passed the rest of his life at the court of his grandfather, the Emperor of Austria, and died there at the âge of twenty-one.