Lui en sait gré, is pleased with her, is gratified by it

N. ** je lui en sais bon gré," I take it kindly of him ; "il vous en saura mauvais gré/' he will take it ill of you.

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19, Empédocle, Empedocles, a Greek philosopher, bom about B.c. 460, at Agrigectum, in 8icily. He is said to hâve been the first philosopher who taught the doctrine of the ** four éléments.'* The time and mannor of his death are uncertain ; the story of his havîng thrown himself into the crater of Mount Etna being, in ail probability, a fiction.

23. Jusqu'au faux pas des montures, to the very stumbling of the nags (any beast to ride upon).

88, 3. Consacrer, tp dévote.

7. Ze plus grand tort a toujours été, the fault has been chiefly.

10. Le soir, in the evening. N. " dans le soir '* could not be said in French: **dans la soirée," in the course of the evening.

17. Cet être caressant, this fawning créature. K. " avoir des manières caressantes," to hâve winning manners.

23. Une foulé de liaisons, a host of associâtes (and acquaintances innumerable).

29, 2. Jadis, of yore, long before this day. Compound of jà, from Lat. jam, and dis, from Lat. die; Cf. dyà^ jamais.