bohémienne, 'a ^ip^y

19 Si fait, ' Yeii, I dn tbnu;.'b.' TSi itf^uck more emphatio than oui, and is «eiierally uscd aftcr a négative question.

80. Vons êtes . . . France, . . . Bretagne. Nothing could better express tlie wide guir -whioh cxisted at that tiiiie between Brittany and tberestof Fnvnce. For the 'Bretim' pensant, tlie only fatherland was bis chère Bretagne. Tho rest of Fraucu niigbt bave beuu Eoglaïul, for Bu^bt ho kuew or carcd. Tbe geograpliical position of the (irovince, hidden away in tlie far west, remote fioin ail centres of oivilizatioii, had agreatdeul to do witli tliis i};norance. The conditions of life were also diUérent Wbile in otbcr paris of France the teigneurt were hated as oppressors and hard tax-mastcrd — never living on their lands, but spending their money, wrung from the over-worki'd peasant, in profligecy and extravagance at Ibe Court— the loida of Brittany were beloved and revered. And no wondtrl they liveil on tlieir estâtes, identified themselves with their tenants, sh ired iii their pleasures, aiid relievtd tlieir distress. It is not astonisliing tiiat the ' Breton ' peaaantry rose as one man in defence of the triple pi'inci|ile iuvoired iu the threel'old fanaticism niider which they lived — " kiiig, loid, and priest."

SI. Va pour Siaooignard, ' Wcll I Siscuignard, if yen like.' This imperative mood of aller io uscd tamilinrly iii au appmliative sctise.

22. On a des parents . . . 'Feople bave relations, haiig itl or bave had sorae.'

28. ahnrie, 'in utter amnzement.' Tlie word hure, originally meaning bair stauding on end, produced ahuH (la gent barbue et ahurie, 'a folk bearled and of upstanding locks,' is a phrase of tbe thirteenth reiitury). AhaH later receivcd tbe sensé of standing on eud from fiight, tben 'terrïHid,' and lastly tbe modem sensé of ' aiiiazeiuent.'