i l'arme blanehe, ' with cold ateel

18. par une vis-de-8aint-6illes, ' by a windin<? stairease.' Thèse staircaaea, tlie stepa of which seemed to bear you heavenwards to nowhere, were each supported by an aiched ceiling, very urtiaticnlly iriade. Tliey aeem to have I >een modellcd on that of the Friury of Saint-Gillea, in Languedoc ; bence the name.

20. en arrêt, 'on the qui-vive' (t'.e. like doga ' pointiug'; hence diieu arrêt, pointer ; chien couchant, setter).

81. se préoiSEtit . . . i 'waa becoming clearly deflniid, and migbt be •ummed up as foUowa.'

22. A quoi bon, ' wliat ia the aae . . .' {i.e. to what purpoao).