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qui avait eu envers elle des torts, who had eom

mitted turongs iowards her.

155* — 17. de plus ^^rand matin, earlier in the moming.

23. qui se serait bien srardé de dire, who vxndd hâve carefuUy avoided mying.

156. — 5. sa fille en était venue à aimer Bogrer, her daughter luid corne to love Roger. Note that en, altbougb, as ofteO) reduudant, bas hère some such force as ' under tbese circumstances.'

157« — 11. Machiavélisme, ëhreiodness, cunning. Derived from the naiDe of Machiavelli, a distinguished statesman of Florence about the close of the 15th century, who was said to be govemed by the maxîm : * The end justifies the means.' 12. sans que Catherine eût fait la moindre résistance, withovi CkUherine^a having mode the leasl résistance. Compare 148-1.

34. d'aller chercher le petit garçon, to go afier the little boy.

15$*— 7. je ne saurais vivre plus longrtemps ainsi, Icavr not live longer thu». Note that the forms of savoir, and especially the conditîonal, are used for those of 'pouvoir.

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