Restez couvert. — Don't take off your cap

8. Autant . . . paraissait grave et sévère. — Father Vassereau, dressed in a chestnut coat and large black vest, appeared .just as grave and severe as mother Balais did grand and magnificent.

9. Toute l'école dégringolait des bancs, et se sauvait. — The whole school scrambîed down from the benches and were off. The last words of this paragraph, jusqu'à la maison, mean until they reached their homes.