une flgnre débonnaire, ' a harmless appearanoe

60. à la serre, i.e. * txuglit.' Serrer, of whiuh this is a derivativo, is froin Iiat.*erarr, tolnckinPri&cian: then to put under loi k and ki y, the meaniDg in the old French phrases, terrer les grains, serrer son argent, terrer des hardes (to put uway elotlies), and in subutantive fem., serrure. The Lat. terare becomes rerrare iii médiéval Lat. texts nnd takes the seiise, as here, of chaining up, bindiiij^ clouely. Cf. êerrfz les rangs, 'close up.'

61. d'nn gabarit massif et trapn, ' of strong and stubby build '

62. émigrés. This is the name given to those French nobles, etc., who, to save Iheir livee, quitted France on tlie outbreak of tbe B(^volution. Hany of them, be it said to their lasting di^gnici', to k service in the armies and tleets of continental powers aud foaght against their owu oountrymen.