son papier, 'hisbills

13. Casimir, ' kerseymere ' or ' cassimere,' a twilled wooUen cloth.

Casimir is a corruption of cachemire, ' cashmere. ' ,, Elbeuf, about thirteen miles south-west of Rouen, on the

Seine. Louviers, about fifteen miles north of Évreux, on

the Eure. Both thèse towns are famous for their cloth

manufactories.

15. nous autres : notice the emphatic use of atit^-es after nous and vous.

,, 16. il avait fini par oublier : this use of par is limited to the verbs commencer, continuer, and finir. Other verbs take en with the présent participle.

,, 18. les catég-ories instituées pour le recrutement de la pairie : the House of Peers, created in 1814, at the Restoration, was partly composed of hereditary members ; but in 1831 the heredity of the peerage was abolished, and the peers were henceforth chosen by the king from certain classes of citizens {^catégories) determined by law. The House of Peers was suppressed in February 1848, and replaced by the Senate in 1852.

, , 20. en fin de compte, ' after ail. ' Cf. au bout du compte (same meaning).

, , , , quand il le voudrait bien : notice this use of the conditional after a conjunction of time, and the idiomatic meaning of vouloir bien.

,, 21. plus de trois mille francs : ' than ' = de before a numéral, except when the numéral is subject of a verb expressed or understood. Thus il a écrit plus de dix lettres ; but il écrit plus que trois secrétaires.