n^est plus de repos, no longer is repose to be found

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80, 12. Tar le ealme, when ail is calm. N. par îs often nsed to mark time, and in the eense of during : '' nous par-

t tiises par un beautemps/' we set oot in fine weather;

*' où allez-yous par cette pluie-là? " vhere are you goiufç in such a rain as this ?

J'emui^ bientôt une bourrasque...^ a sudden gale soon drit'ta me away. N. essuyer ^ to wipe away, is used fiiçuratively in a physioal and moral sensé of to bear, to go througfa, to undergo: '* essuyer une tempête, des pertes, des reprocher, *' " on a peu de caprices à tSBuyer en le servant," one undergoes very few caprices in bis service. Etym. Lat. exsuecare. See ITachette's *'Pormes idiomatiques comparées/' chap. 2, pb. 81.

22. Le Dnda de mon oncle Tobie, uncle Toby*s hobby-borse. An allusion to one of the characters in " Tristram îibandy,'* by Laurence Sterne, divine and miscelluneons writer, born in 1713, at Clonmel in Ireland, died March 18, 1768. The first two volumes of bis celebrated " Tristram Shandy " appeared in 1759, drew upon him praise and censure of ever^' kind, and became so popular that a bookseller engaged for its c^mpletion on very lucrative terms. Voltaire said of ** Tristram Shandy": "Cet ouvrage ressemble à ces petits satyres de l'antiquité qui renfermaient des essences précieuses." He himsclf translated two or three passages. It is very évident that X. de Maistre had also read Sterne's "Sentimental Journey,** which vas composed in 1768.

S9, 1. ^n j!7flMfl«/, by the way.

6. // laisse quelque chose après lui, he leaves his works behind him.