La troupe époumonnêe, the panting troop (of huntsmen

6. à la belle étoile, in the open, literally, under the stars.

7. L'immense muraille des Alpes, etc., the huge waU of the Alps, bare, dug with ravines, rugged, incrusted with scant, smoky viUages.

8. le bleu violent de la mer infinie, theflashinghlueoftheinfinitesea.

9. Faisait une clairière qui voulait pour la culture, anyone who chose coidd cLear enough groundfor tiUage.

10. la tyrannie du papier oflSciel, the tyranny of officiai red-tape.

Page 51. 1. dodelinant sur mon mulet, swinging carelessly on my mute.

Page 52. 1. étale sa nonchalance, etc., listlessly stretches itsétf in the shade of its plane trees, the coolness of its fountains, or the hla^ng light ofa dusty sky out of whichfaUs continuously a heavy shower of sunshine.

2. ne sachant de la Ville, etc., because he knows the city ordy for its places of amusement or of unrelenting huMness, he finds himself confined in the narrow drde of social relations.

3. s'use dans le pesant ennui de l'inutile meule, tires himself ovi under the duU routine of the uadess grind (of daily pursuits and occupations).

4. les remous réguliers de la vie laborieuse, the récurrent eddies of a laborUma existence.

5. dans les chauds effluves des beaux soirs, in the warm émanations ai the dose of heautiftd days.

Page 53. 1. ressassent les commérages du quartier, repeat over and over a^ain the gossip of their street.