à propos, 'in the "nick" of time

13. qu'est-ce qu'elle fait . . . t ' What is she np to now 7 '

14. n faut le mettre hors la loi, 'He must bc outlawed.' A>rii, fonnerly /ors, is from Lat. fora», just as O.F. faroê (a troop of Btallions) and farde» bave liecoine haro» (a stud of borses) and hardes (clotbes). Tlie lAtin / being only one degree stronger thun h, says M. Brachet, we flnd the same exobange between the archaic Lat/oates, fireum, etc., and the dassical hottes, lUreum.

14 a. en-tète, ' heading.'

16. oii il a irtè admirable d'intelligence . . . , 'wheie he displayed a'imirable tact . . . ' 16. où U tient «a Mhee. This is the singulur form of iehee» (chess)^

Notes to Chapter V.

O.F. atehae. Both the game and name are Oriental. Persîan 'ehnh, ' » kinKi' the ganie tnking ils mime from the princii-al pièce. Fmtn the Perstan phraoo tcliah-mat (Ihe king is dead), ooiues the expression éehee et mat cl)eck-niate).