revenez-y, ' retrospects

., 16. pour le petit, 'for the " little one," her son.' A mother always sees her sons and daughters, at whatever âge, as at the time when they were children, and always Ihinks of them as her ' little ones. '

, , 18. pour qu'il pût donner un bon coup de pied à la misère, ' so that he might soon be able to shake off the malady.'

,, 22. les draps rebordés, ' the bed-clothes tucked in. '

,, 25. nuits blanches, ' sleepless nights'; journées noires, ' checrless, anxious days.' Note the antithesis : — blanches, because one wakes as if it were day-light ; noires, because everything " app>ears lowering and forlorn.