que lui valait la promenade quotidienne de

son mari, which her husband^s daily ride procured for her,

33. Je n'y ai jamais trouvé que de joie, / hâve never found in it anything brUjoy, 142» — 6. sur la pente. It will be observed that this is the expression which gives the name to the book. It may be rendered, upon the dippery path^ as in the Préface, or upon the difficvlt ascent, dependîng upon the greater prominence in the mind of the danger of falling, or the difficulty of making tbe ascent. It is admirably choeep as a title to express the critical position in which the circumstances of her sad life bave placed the heroine.