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PAGE 140.-La curiosité, ou les manies.-1. to be an amateur is not to have. 2. to that which is in vogue.

SAME PAGE.-Le fleuriste.—1. 2. 3. 4. & 5. names of tulips. 6. before which he stands till he is quite exhausted. 7. but then it is variegated with the same colour, edged, unctuous. 8. cut out, scalloped.

PAGE 141.-L'amateur de prunes.—1. a connaisseur in. 2. scientifically. 3. flesh, pulp. 4. some appearance. 5. stature,

height.

SAME PAGE. Le numismate.-1. one who is versed in, or likes medals. 2. not at all. 3. series. 4. defaced inscription. 5. soft, mellowness (of the figure or drawing resulting from age). 6. bloom, freshness.' 7. die, stamp: cette médaille est à fleur de coin, that medal is perfectly preserved. 8. filled. 9. literally. PAGE 142.-1. displays. 2. that very few impressions have been taken. 3. all the prints by Calot. 4. sad.

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4. edge.

PAGE 143.-Le bibliomane.-1. one over-fond of books. teach. 3. he vainly cries out, in order to revive me. 5. gold strings. 6. tan-house.

SAME PAGE.-L'édificateur.—1. the constructor, builder. 2. inhabitant of a town, rich man without profession, master who employs journeymen, ' citizen.' 3. uninhabitable. 4. agent. 5. garret. 6. inlaid work. 7. people are incessantly knocking. 8. the master.

SAME PAGE.-L'ornithologiste.—1. tainted with plague. 2. warbling. 3. uproar. 4. increase, surge, swelling. 5. shrill. 6. to pour, give out. 7. he pays a salary. 8. to brood. 9. overcome by. 10. crested. 11. chirps, warbles. 12. moults.

PAGE 144.-1. purchases. 2. for he has experienced.

PAGE 145.-1. shaft, pole, beam. 2. board, plank. 3. whips. 4. backgammon. 5. dice-box. 6. balass, straw-coloured. dessert.

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PAGE 150.-1. cut. 2. smells. 3. collates. 4. barters. 5. auctioneer.

PAGE 153.-1. wan, dull. 2. ungilded. 3. polecat, a sort of weazel. 4. the shade. 5. pock-fretted, speckled. 6. gimblet. 7. worn, 'thread-bare.' 8. milleped, an insect found under logs of wood, large stones, &c.

PAGE 155.-1. (and shakes your hand so heartily) that he almost dislocates your wrist. 2. to be candid with you. 3. transaction to settle. 4. attorney. 5. a man of abrupt manners, but of a benevolent heart.

PAGE 158.-1. starched, stiff. 2. self-important. 3. undescribed. 4. opening. 5. jeering, deriding. 6. gait, pace, behaviour, habits. 7. coach-office. 8. horse-hair. 9. meanness. 10. deceit, 'trickery.' 11. attempts, attacks. 12. open air. 13. smells, anticipates.' 14. furious, anxious,

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PAGE 163.-1. are blunted, 'weakened.' 2. in slackening, 'diminishing the rapidity of.' 3. the higher branches of philological study, logic, &c.

PAGE 173.-1. you are very ignorant of the occurrences of the town. 2. we are very stupid. 3. the appellation of Monsieur is given to the eldest brother of the King of France.

PAGE 176.-1. is well established. 2. do not make a useless display of wit. 3. confine yourself.

PAGE 178.-1. alliance, union. 2. 3. & 4. dishonourable contrivances bring more knaves to misery than to fortune.

PAGE 179.-1. portmanteau. 2. bolster. 3. loft. 4. rafters. PAGE 182.-1. we only bring forth. 2. flesh-worm.

PAGE 184.-1. dry up. 2. it is already approaching.

PAGE 185.-1. yet could I but avoid. 2. delusion! 3. to grow dim. 4. there is no escape.

PAGE 186.-1. plebeian.

PAGE 188.-1. withers. 2. chaff. 3. mote. 4. restless.

PAGE 191.-1. broken down, decayed. 2. simples, ‘medicinal herbs.'

PAGE 197.-1. fit of delirium. 2. nurses.

PAGE 198.-1. to open to the art of teaching. 2. innovating. 3. swaddling bands, shackles.'

PAGE 201.-1. exposes it to the shafts (of death).

PAGE 204.-1. I would not build. 2. well versed in its pursuit. 3. to take a part in. 4. in exercise. 5. would render ceremony unnecessary. 6. a merry contest. 7. good-natured remarks. 8. my heart moved with compassion. 9. would join in the chorus.

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PAGE 210.-1. substance, summary. 2. calm, smooth sea. PAGE 214.-1. Thou who. 2. the murderous steel. 3. dry up. PAGE 215.-1. wins, entices. 2. alleviating.

PAGE 218.-1. he was informed. 2. either willingly, or because they were compelled. 3. intimate recollection or devotion. 4. which it would perhaps never have routed;' enfoncer, to break into.

PAGE 227.-1. bursting its way. 2. fire-irons generally used in supporting logs of wood, the common fuel on the continent.

PAGE 230.-1. deck. 2. fragment, stump. 3. bounded over him with a single leap. 4. two smith's pincers or nippers. 5. panting.

PAGE 233.—1. whiled away the tiresomeness of. 2. and men do nothing else. 3. raising his voice.

PAGE 237.-1. hurdles of wicker-work.

3. ' padded,' quilted like a mattress. 4. weakened.

2. surplice.

PAGE 246.-1. spent ball. 2. a Latin proverb: for our altars and firesides.

PAGE 256.-1. violently oppress their heart. 2. stillness and repose dwell in the fields of memory! 3. powerless, insensible, apathetic blasé, from the Greek Brands (blaisos), distorted, impotent.

PAGE 266.-1. clay. 2. glaïeul, gladiolus, or sword-grass.

PAGE 267.-1. reflections. 2. sickles. 3. gui (prononcez ghi), misletoe. 4. céraste (from the Greek xipas (keras) horn), horned snake; impur, foul, unclean. 5. larvæ, spectres.

PAGE 270.-1. clarion. 2. vine-branch. 3. wedge, 'angle.' 4. prance, rear. 5. stables, stud.' 6. 'haft,' handle.

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PAGE 282.-1. he longed to become a believer in the true God.

PAGE 286.-1. clashing. 2. pale or stake.

PAGE 296.-1. artful. 2. chausse-trape, coltrop, an instrument made with four spikes, so that whichever way it falls to the ground, one of them points upwards. 3. spits, spikes. 4. amulets, charms.

PAGE 298.-1. strand, or shore. 2. are scattered. 3. increase. 4. funnels.

PAGE 301.-1. tingling, or tinkling. 2. whirls. 3. ringing of bells, peals. 4. cracked, 'out of tune.'

PAGE 309.-1. ogive, a term used in architecture, applied to projecting lines which, crossing each other diagonally, form an angle at the top of a vault, an arcade, a pointed or arched window, &c. 2. of various colours. 3. sharp and weak. 4. long, slender. 5. calotte, a small coif, which only covers the top of the head, worn by priests in Roman Catholic countries.

PAGE 312.-1. mariner's compass.

PAGE 313.-1. orvietan (derived from Orvietto, a town in Italy), a quack medicine. 2. jugglers. 3. badaud, a simpleton, a cockney. 4. felt, shabby hat.' 5. taste. 6. spot. 7. lower orders,

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PAGE 324.-1. grape-shot.

PAGE 328.-1. exactions, outrages.

2. to manage, direct. PAGE 333.-1. turnings or windings. 2. guns, field-pieces.

PAGE 335.-1. whip. 2. rebound.

PAGE 339.-1. crenated in the form of battlements. 2. level with the surface of the water. 3. pale, of a dead colour. 4. ornamented headpiece, nodding plumes.' 5. towing. 6. fly-boat. 7. 8. & 9. names of vessels used in the Mediterranean. The tartane has one mast and a three-cornered sail. 10. handful' ; literally, a pinch, the quantity that can be contained in two or three fingers.

PAGE 344.-1. cocon, the cocoon or ball of the silk-worm. 2. worn-out tattered vestment.

PAGE 347.-1. hedges; charmille, from charme, horn-beam or yoke elm, a tree which shoots principally from the root.

PAGE 366.-1. begone out of my house. 2. fit subject for the gallows. 3. if I may say so. 4. lest I knock you on the head. 5. search. 6. spies. 7. you set yourself up for a reasoner! I will give you such an argument as this about your ears. 8. stingy wretches. 9. are you troubling yourself. 10. barrette, petit bonnet, close-cap; parler à ta barrette, box your ears.' whom the cap fits, let him wear it.

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PAGE 369.-1. tells me to my face. 2. and in very good circumstances. 3. quickly take by the forelock. 4. one's happiness or misery depends upon it. 5. take into consideration.

PAGE 371.-1. hearty, lively. 2. fine cause to complain, indeed! 3. constitution. 4. make some sacrifice. 5. œconomy of living. 6. jelly-broths. 7. peeled (barley). 8. is not so inconsiderable, but that it. 9. in which her equals indulge. 10. gaming. 11. have heard of. 12. all at once. 13. noticed me. 14. for

want of. 15. will set me on my feet again. 16. letters. 17. que je vous sollicite, solliciter being a transitive verb.

PAGE 375.-1. for this evening. 2. is missing. 3. deduct it. 4. to put them in mind. 5. frocks.

PAGE 376.-1. for you take upon yourself. 2. first course. 3. side-dishes.

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PAGE 378.-1. guigné, watched, (guigner, de l'espagnol guimar, regarder une chose avec envie, la guetter). 2. all is over. committed the deed. 4. put to the rack. 5. police-officers. 6. chief justices. 7. racks, tortures.

PAGE 380.-1. of good weight. 2. sucking-pig. 3. to dress it for you. 4. clipped. 5. you cannot but know. 6. and I still bear in mind. 7. proofs. 8. lurking. 9. if you take it in that view.

PAGE 383.-1. evasions. 2. a wilful crime. 3. motives. 4.

will soon give me satisfaction. 5. had participated. 6. my property. 7. what a jumble is this about my daughter?

PAGE 386.-1. are you going to show me. 2. that I am getting myself dressed. 3. I thought I should never get on my legs. 4. until they have brought me. 5. in proper style. 6. I had this printed calico gown made for me. 7. go thus. 8. it becomes you. 9. under-waistcoat. 10. nothing can be better. 11. compositions. 12. I would have you first. 13. you should not have had it done. 14. you must not, sir, be deceived by the name of pupil. 15. as any that can be composed. 16. it will be better with it. 17. could enliven it a little here and there. 18. I was taught one. 19. Jane. 20. a strict relation to one another. 21. who teaches me. 22. engaged. 23. that is everything which is necessary. 24. can do nothing. 25. are occasioned by nothing but. 26. oversights. 27. failures. the want of knowing how. step.

28. has happened only from 29. want of harmony. 30. false

PAGE 390.-1. a treble. 2. counter-tenor. 3. bass-viol. 4. theorbo, a large lute for playing thorough bass. 5. harpsichord. 6. thorough base. 7. treble violins.

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