Snfants, ^vhen they were children

23. c'est plus fort que moi, ifs more than I can stand. 28. fussent, subjunctive with/dcx un.

17. — I. les antiques demeures, etc., the dark timbers of the andent houses bent toward each other,

2. étages en surplomb, overhanging upper stories. — roses ; alluding to the color of the tiles of the roof.

5. 111, s mail river which runs through Strasburg and empties later into the Rhine.

8. Vauban, Sébastian, Le Prestre de ( 1 633-1 707), celebrated military engineer and marshal who captured and constnicted many fortified towns.