Ma prévention^ my préjudice in his faveur

68| 2. S'ouvrirent tout -à-coup à deux battants^ fly open before him. N. battant, s.m., one side or fold of a double door. '* Une porte à deux battants,'* a folding door. 6» Set vastet ailes^ qui auraient pu couvrir une armée. '*Our author, depending, ît would seem, upon his memory, gives Satan wings largç enough ' to cover a whole army.' It was ' the extended wings ' of the gâtes of hell, not of Satan, that Milton describes aa wide enough to admit a *bannered host.' " — H. A.

She open'd ; but to sliut Ezcell'd her pow^ : the gâtes wide open stood, That with extended wings a bannerM host Under spread ensigns marching might itaas through With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array.

" Paradise Lost," 883-87,

9. Je le donne en quatre au plus hardie I would dare the boldest man again and again (four times) to do as muoh. N. ** donner en dix, en cent,'' etc., means^ in familiar language, to give something to guess or to do which is thought difficalt or almost impossible. "C'est un chef-d'œuvre d'avoir inventé un habit sérieux qui ne fût pas noir ; et je le donne en ' six coups aux tailleurs las plus éclairés." — Molière» '* Bourgeois Gentilhomme," il., 8.

\ Comme, and (as well as).

xxxvin.

^6. Qm ih^ arrivent^ I meet with.

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63, 18. Cook, Captaîn James Cook, the celebrated English

nayîgator. He was bom at Marton, in Yorkshire, in 1728. He discovered the Sandwich Islanjds, ezplored the western coast of North America» and then made further diacoveries in the Pacific Died a violent death, on St. Yalentine's Day, 1779. 22. Sam le buste, if it were not for the bust.

64, S. Za remettre dans ton assiette naturelle, restore it to its

natural state. ^ " il n'est paa dans son assiette,"

he is ont of humour, raffled. 9. Ah ! êi le sculpteur avait pu, ah ! that the scalp tor had ,

been able.

17, Au moment où le crime allait f envahir, an allusion to the

Révolution of 1789.