Monaco. A small principality (5| sq. m.) on the Medi

terranean, not far from Nice, now under the protection of France. It adjoins the town of Monte Carlo, where is the celebrated Casino, the greatest gambling-place in Europe. The two towns so closelj adjoin that the two names are often used interchangeably, though MmU Carlo îs oftener heard.

16. sans faire jeter les hauts cris à beau-père et à. belle-mère, without making the father- and mother-4n4aw uUer lovd cries. For the construction of beau-père and héUe-mère compare 23-4.

18. que ne me les laisse ce diable d'intendant, than that wretch of a superintendent leaves them for me. For the 716, redundant in English, see Less. 63, iii, 1.

24. Elle me dirait des nouvelles de, she wmdd' be pleased with^ she ivould enjoy. Lif., ' tell me news of.'

27. avec sa mine de déterrée, with hèr look of one just risen from the grave.

27. — 4. le break de service, the light market-wagon. The word breaky adopted from the English, is used out of its ordinary English meaning.

8. à tort et éi travers, right and leftf ai random. 30. Qu'allait-il arriver, what was going to happen. 28. — 1. sur le point de se trouver mal, on the poÎTit offainting away.

6. le subalterne de service, the subordinate on duty. 13. le fusil de monsieur, my mastet^s gun, This îs the usual use of monsieur in the mouth of a servant.