doit mourir, must be dying

3- je brûlais, our colloquial expression is, “] was dying”; trans. Z' was eager.

Page 25.— 1. je ne m’en porte pas plus mal, / do not feel the worse for it.

2. byssus, éyssus; silky filaments that attach certain shell fishes to submarine bodies,

Page 26.—1. ménagée, cut.

Page 27.— 1. en bon rang, ;# a conspicuous place.

2. Joseph Bertrand (1822-1899), a celebrated French scientist and mathematician.