carré, 'quarters

121. le bruit que fait . . . , ' the " plaith " of a liody as it falla*

182. La Vendée a une tête. Our r aciers will renieiuber t nt one of the first caiihps of the «eHkntss of the royalist cause in La Vendée wax wunt of "colIe^ion," cach chief at the h( ad ot the iusurgents of lus particular distr'ot aciiiig in<lepei deiitly of the otlicr. The arrivai uf the Marquis de Lautenac was to change the fa 'e of affaira.

12S. On avait mis le temps à profit, ' Time had been tumed to aouount Cf 'To t«ke tiine by the forelo. k."

124. et la ralale s'en allait an nord, ' and tLe squiiU was veering off to the norih.'

125. Faire bonne mine i mauvais jeu, 'to put a good face upon matters.' Cf. Faire contre fortune, bon cœur.

126. rate, ' missi-s its mark.' Tliere wns an ohl Frenrh phrase pmxlre un rat (i.e. to take ii faucy), as in ce pi-^tolrt a pris un rat, said of a piatul missing tire, in eighteentb-ci-ulury writers.

187. Nous nous en tirerons. See note 98. ch. i. p. 190. 128. (ni portent malheur, ' which aie of evil omen.*

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