mettre au ban, to exile or banish

611. It is hard to see how the Emperor could have exercised any authority in France which was a rival, if not a hostile, government.

617. toucher à la dame, etc., to think of interfering toith this bandiVs loved one !

621. trop loyale, because contrary to his own impulse, he has jiot taken the king's life.

659, 660. traînant au fianc un souci profond, hearing toithin my breast a deep sorrow.

670. Que d'arracher la fleur, etc. Que is here used merely to introduce the appositive clause which follows, and need not be translated.

701. les Bbires, les alcades, the constaMes, the jailers. The word sbires is from the Italian shtrri, while alcades is from the Spanish ^alcalde, a magistrate, here confused as sometimes happens, with

the Spanish alcalde, which means not only a military governor^ but also a warden or jailer,

705. Ton épée. It will be noticed that the entrance of the montagnard who comes to warn his rashly delaying* leader gives Hemani an opportunity to arm himself with another s word, in the place of the blade which he had broken in the king's presence.

Page 146. une panoplie complote, a full suit of defensive armor. liine 730. dans autrui, in otTiers. This pronominal form autrui (Latin alter huic)j is rarely used in modern French, except as the object of a verb or preposition.

735. oui, c'en est là 1 yes, things have gone as far as that / 737. noires allées, i.e., garden paths bordered by high hedges of shubbery, stiffly trimmed.

753. ff. This reference to the frivolous gallants of the time recalls to some extent the lines of Arnolphe in Molière's Ecole des Femmes;

De tous ces damoiseaux on sait trop les coutumes ; Ils ont de beaux canons, forces rubans, et plumes, Grands cheveux, belles dents, et des propos fort doux ; Et ce sont vrais satans . . .

—Act III. se. L

801 . Non pas = non, il ne le sera pas. It should always be remembered that an expression like non pas is elliptical, the non being the independent negative particle, and /mm, part of the negative ne . . . pas used with some verb understood.

804. But an expression of the common belief as to the good fortune brought by strangers.

813. 11 est mort, le rebelle 1 Ruy Gomez does not know, it must be remembered, that it was Hemani whom he found with Don Carlos in Dofia SoPs apartment.

817. écrin, literally, a jewelrcaskety which may be translated however, by either jeioels or casket, according to the context.