Moulinet. — A little stick used for stirring chocolaté

22. Où ils se doutaient bien. — Into which they could not help suspecting ; literaily, strongly suspected. The adverb bien is often used merely to emphasize the verb to which it is joined. It is then frequently impossible to give an exact équivalent for it in English. It may sometimes be rendered by indeed, surely, it is true, really, I must confess, &c.

23. Virginie revenait souvent sur cet objet. — Virginia often recurred to this subject.

24. Qu'ils ne tarderaient pas a tranquilliser. — That before long they would calm. Tarder is, literaily, to delay, to defer : as, ne tardez pas à m' envoyer de l'argent, do not delay sending me some money ; il tarde a venir, he is a long time coming ; le printemps ne tardera pas h venir, spring will soon be hère.

25. Us se trouvèrent bien embarrassés. — They were very much embarrassed. A common use of se trouver.

26. Qui ne s'étonnait de rien. — Whom nothing disconcerted or frightened.

27. Case. — Hère means a small, wretched house ; as, les cases des nègres aux colonies, the negro cabins in the colonies. " Uncle Tom's Cabin " is called in French, La Case de l'Oncle Tom.

28. Il se flattait de monter ainsi la montagne. — He fancied he could thus climb the mountain.

29. Le jour baisse. — Daylight is fading, or it is growing dark.

30. Ajoupa. — A kind of hut supported upon stakes hastily and roughly covered with branches, leaves, straw, or rushes.