M laissait aller à, i.e. ' indulged in

8. l'heure sereine, l'heure dn soir, 'the witching hour of twilight.'

9. Dépêdioiu-nons. . . . Our readerswillhere recognizo in the speaker the worthy cantiniire of the bataillon du Bonnet Rnugn, who had rescued the ponr widow and her urpliimn In the wnod of La Suudmie.

lu, mômes, ' little ones.' The word is fourni in Du Bellay in tho eense of ' mocking.' and would appeiir to attacli itself to the meaning of viômerie (i e. mascarade). " It is proLably to Ihis same word," says M. Litlré, " tliat tliia (wpuliir word for 'little child' is liuked." Cf. Eng, 'to mum,' ' uiummery.'

11. mioches. " It is most probable," snys M. Littré, "that mimhe petit enfant) is the same word as mioche, mie ( i.e pttit morceau).' Nie havliig in iteelf tlie sensé of the Lat. «n>oa. In Lower-Noimandy and Cliaiuiel-Islund patois there is an uld word miot used in thu sensé of moreeau.

lia. ca fait son homme, ' he acts like a little man.' — Am. Ed.

12. Dame, il va sur cinq ans, ' Well, you see, he is nearly five.' 18. Tiquaient, ' studded.'

14, qui venait d'être, ' which had just shown itself.* Venir followed by de serves, together with the past participles of verbe, to form near perfects (i.e. expressing a past actii n as baving only ju»t taken place). £x. : Il vient de siirtir, 'he has qme out, but only jvat.'