voussure. An architectural tenu, 'coving

12. guérite. Here ' watuh-tower, turret.' It usually means ' a sentryboz,' frum the Spanisli garila.

13. combattants. Here the verhoZ adjertire; henœ the s (>.e. in a ttate of fightiug). In old French tliere was no distinction bt tween the présent participle and the verbal adjective. Hence this line in Florian's table, Le GHUon.

" Aussitôt les voillt couranii.

Après ce papillon dont ils ont tou:s envie."

14. t'en tiraient . . . , ' mauageil as best they could.' Cf. Les Misérables ■• Les bonnes âmes se tirèrent d'aiïaire (i.e. c/ot ont ofit. . . .).

15. inconnu, 'unknown factor.' Victor Hugo is always at his best when lie hii» children for his thème. No poet has ever undcrstood them, or paiuttd them in words as he has dune. This is delightful rt.adiug indted 1