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Page 489.— 1. just as it happens. 2. 1 wash my hands of it ; t. e. I am not concemed in it. 3. let it be as it may, I.shall not care. 4. peaoe-officer of the ward, quartier {de la ville).

Page 490. — 1.' why does he take into bis head ? 2. folding-chair.

Page 494. — 1. to physic. 2. would be yery well content with her« 3. shoulder-blade. 4. midrif {diaphragme, muscle très-large et fort mince, situé à la base de la poitrine, qu'il sépare d'avec Tabdomen).

5. this indeed is the cause why your daughter is dumb. VoUà ce qui fait que votre fiUe est muette : this phrase bas become a proverbial expression, and is applied to unintelligible and absurd arguments. 6. would that 1 had such a well-hung tongue 1

Page 498. — 1. troublesome business. 2. attempt upon my freedom. 3. honesty. 4. safeguard. 5. likely to be so. 6. who bave contributed to the Elégant extraeta. 7. infinitely obliged. 8. dabble jm it. 9. iiupremely fine.

Page 501. — 1. my dear. 2. attendance at court. 3. are notinfeiior to me. 4. tendemess. 5. by a grenade.

Page 510.— 1. cart-loads. 2. flower-beds.

Page 511. — 1. * ready-made.' cracher ^ to spit.

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Paob 519.-^1. itiU-boni. 2. aon-nitted. 3. k a eold ptsctfânûon, 4k with aU thdr niii^t. Ik puifcd up. S. mffied or ^ged in cahM^e. 7. Uot. 8. 1 ra^we tlMt it ba takm « erideaoei 9. dMM. lû. wonld be contradictory.

Pagi 518.— 1. penny-a-Unen (hire, a poor èr metèhed MLow}*

Paob 524^1. craited,<abMrbeâ.' 2.lMilîwick«

pAOt 530.*— 1. he is a wag. 2. squinting. 3. fbnnerly, t. e. before flia MTolutiDn.

Paos 533. — 1. it if jatt the same.

Paob 54(K— l* ftete, a l(Mig vaat won by eeitain digtoitadei.