cela n'est pas fait pour/ Ma/ is not likely to

21* I. dès is here merely emphatic; dès aujonrd'hni, tkis very day,

21« 20. Plus, fcr il n^y avait plus. The negative is omitted because there is no verb.

22* 23. Lorient and Saint Nazaire are sea-ports on the west coast of France.

28* 14. stopper, to stop^ a word borrowed from the English and generally used only of machinery.

28» 23. C'est à qni, an elliptical expression meaning it is to be Men wkoy tkere is a rivalry as to wko,

25. 16. Ce qne c'est d'être, tkat is wkat it is to be; compare note to line 26, p. 17.

27» 23. machine en arrière, reverse tke engine.

80* 19. Finistère (finis terrae) is the name of the westernmost department of France as well as of a cape at the northwest extremity of Spain, although in the latter case it is usually spelled Finisterre,