dénoftment, * solution,' ' way ont of

18. Toucher à la victoire, c'est nne ivresse, ' To have victory within cne's graep, is a very freiizy.'

19. serrait. Here 'put away.' Serrer is, lit., 'to open close,' 'to lock,* 'equeeze,' and is from Lat. êerare, found in Prisoiau with the meaning of 'to lock,' then 'to put under lock and key,' es in the French phrases serrer les grains (to store away wheat) ; serrer son argent ; serrer des hardes (td put away clothes). Cf. Les Misérables, I. livre X. ch. vi. Madame Magloire serrait l'argenterie (t'.e. used 'to put away'). Cf. also, subetantive iem., serrure, 'a look.' The Lat. terare bccame serrare in mediœval Latin texte, and takes the sensé of 'chaining up,' 'bindiug Btrongly,' 'pressing.'

20. qu'on s'y risquât. Note the subjunotive risquât after a verb of doubl.

Quatrevingt-Treize.

SI. aeevlé, ' bmnght up against.'

88. on tronyait la ressonree, 'the only eseape possible was,' or 'the ODiy resource left was to.' SS. en Tiendront à bont, ' will get the better of it.' 24. à qui parler, ' soine one to parley with.' 26. Qui en yent ? ' WIio'h game 7 *

26. filë, ' sloped.' Cf. Les Travailleyrt de la Mer : FUé, Zuela, ' Clean goiie, Zuela.'