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3. commtms où s'entassaient jadis les redevances, the adjoining buildings where they used to store the goods due to the landlord, French peasants used to pay varying portions of their products to the landlord, before the days of the French Révolution. This custom was very unpopular.

Page 106. i. fenêtres croisiUonnées, cross-harred Windows. 2. s'accule à la voûte, leans against the vavlt, .3. en retour d'équerre, at a right angle,

4. de petites fenêtres jumelles à plein cintre, small, round-arched Windows two by two.

5. de lourdes grappes plumeuses, heavy^ feathery dusters (of birds).

6. Un paon fit sonner le cuivre de son appel strident, a peacock sounded the hra^s of his strident cry.

Page 107. 1. la salle de pierre, the main room paved with stone,

2. sous la hotte tombante, under the sloping waUs of the fireplace in the form of an overtumed basket {hotte),

3. de solide carrure, a man with a strong^ solid breadth of shotdders,

4. Les cheveux blancs taillés en brosse, his white hoir eut in pompadour style,

5. dégagent le front ramassé, etc., uncovers his forehead set between prominent eyebrowSf like those of a ram on andent medals.

6. un nez droit affiné de narines mobilement sensitives, a straight nose rejined by quick sensitive nostrils.

Page 108. 1. attentive à guigner le midtre d'anxieuse amitié,

atteniively watching her master with an anxious dévotion.

2, les deux bons braques de l'âtre, the two good brach-hounds near the hearth,

3. réclamant en toute candeur, etc., naïvely or frankly asking for the just reward of their cynic (or doggish) virtues,

4. la gent exempte de soucis, the careless tribe (the dogs). Gent is now rarely used in the singular. The plural gens means people,

5, sans que rien bouge, sans que rien ne bouge would be more correct, as ne is regularly required with rien.

Page 109. 1. «ette enfant, Claude, Puymaufray's daughter.

2. d'un père, comme elle dit, Claude thinks and says that Dominique Harlé is her f ather.