Page 41.
1. connaître l'exercice, know how to drill.

2. en trompette, curved upwards like a trumpet.

Page 42.
1. en place, repos! stand at rest!

2. Reste, for il reste, "it remains."

3. derrière, from behind.

4. le mit en travers, held it out in a horizontal position.

5. le général Hoche, a French general at this time in command of troops near Anstatt.

6. le vieux bonhomme, the jolly old fellow; bonhomme is sometimes used in an uncomplimentary sense, but not so here.

7. sourire tout bas, to chuckle.--les yeux plissés, with his eyes half closed.

8. arrive, come here.

Page 43.
1. cou, translate plural, necks. The English inserts a negative with casser; in French the negative idea is in prenez garde.

2. comme des bienheureux, "like the blest," like those beside themselves for joy.

3. sur la porte, on his doorstep.

4. A la bonne heure, good, or I'm glad of it.

Page 45.
1. avait fini par, cf. page 20, note 2.

2. seulement ... je, it was only ... that I.

3. Que voulez-vous, what else could you expect; cf. also page 33, note 2.

Page 46.
1. Boeuf-Rouge... Cruchon d'Or, Red Ox... Golden Pitcher, names of taverns, so called from their signs.

Page 47.
1. du moment que, if.

2. s'est livrée, was fought.

Page 48.
1. pour deux liards, two cents' worth; strictly half a cent's worth, as the liard was worth about one fourth of a cent.

2. Brunswick, the Duke of Brunswick, a Prussian, commander-in-chief of the allied Austrian and Prussian forces.

Page 49.
1. Champagne, this was formerly the name of a district in France lying east of Paris and a little to the south.

2. proclamations, for example, "A proclamation to the French, issued by Brunswick, assumed to speak to them in the name of their own legitimate government, threatened to destroy every city which should resist, and to chastise Paris in a way to be remembered forever, if a hair of the king's head was harmed. These empty threats had no effect but to serve as texts by which French patriotic orators stirred the people to fury in their resistance." Lewis, History of Germany, page 553. See Introduction, § 9.

3. la baïonnette dans les reins, with a bayonet through him: meaning that his army had been badly defeated.

4. fait la conduite, sarcastic, attended him.

5. Argonne, Brunswick's army suffered losses in the passes among the hills of Argonne, east of Paris.

6. Valmy, east of Paris in Champagne. An important battle was fought here in 1792. For a full account see Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles. See also Introduction, § 9.

7. manger nous-mêmes, see Introduction, §§ 13-20.

Page 51.
1. temps, weather.

2. sous sa schlitte; woodcutters in the Vosges sometimes bring down their wood from the mountains on schlittes which move on specially constructed tracks. The woodcutter takes his place before the loaded schlitte and braces his feet against ties or other obstructions, much as one would in taking a small vehicle down stairs. The woodcutter spoken of here had lost his footing while thus bringing down a schlitte, and the sled had plunged forward and crushed him under its weight.

Page 53.
1. enjamba l'échelle, put his foot over the step and into the sleigh.

Page 54.
1. Un vendredi, as it was Friday. Friday was a holy day.

Page 55.
1. Gleiszeller, a wine named after the locality where it was made.--cachet, seal, a cap of sheet lead tightly fastened over the top of the bottle.

2. lui lever la main du bout de son nez, to raise his hand with the end of his nose.

3. l'ancien, old fellow.

Page 56.
1. rapporte moins que de prêter à gros intérêts, brings back less, that is, does not pay so well as to lend (money) at high interest.

2. Raison, the revolutionary government had substituted the worship of Reason for the worship of God. See Introduction, § 10.--Maximum, the revolutionists had passed a law fixing maximum prices for the necessaries of life.

Page 57.
1. Wurmser, commander of the Austrian army.

2. A la bonne heure, that was well said.

Page 59.
1. il y a de ressource, you can accomplish something.

2. prenez bien garde, "take good notice," you may well rest assured.

Page 60.
1. travail, possibly alluding to blind Samson's toil. See Judges, XVI: 21.

Page 61.
1. il se tenait le derrière, he kept backed up.

2. d'un coup de dent sec, with a single clean bite; sec modifies the whole expression coup de dent.

3. il lui faisait claquer la patte, he cracked (the bones in) his paw.

Page 62.
1. qu'il fallut entendre, that you ought to have heard.

2. au coin de, from behind.

3. marquerez, future for imperative; "mark," i.e. put down; he has an account.

Page 63.
1. Postthâl, Post Valley; probably the place where the stage company's barns were.

Page 66.
1. n'a pas donné, did not take part in the battle.

2. Vous ne m'en diriez pas plus, que je serais déjà trop heureuse, tell me no more about it, I am too happy already.

3. pas de charge, quick step.

4. Landau, the French were determined to raise the siege of Landau, and thus free their beleaguered comrades.

Page 67.
1. blessé d'un coup de feu, suffering from a gunshot wound.

2. Université, i.e. of the University of Heidelberg in south central Germany.

3. on pense, think, or it is easy to imagine.

4. nous avons manqué d'ensemble, we have failed to act in concert.

5. il y avait de quoi, that was something.

Page 70.
1. Que ce soit, be it.

Page 71.
1. choses de la matière, material things.

Page 72.
1. tirés, drawn back, showing the interior of the alcove.

2. Seigneur Dieu! Good heavens! cf. page 20, note 1.

Page 73.
1. plus de, no more.

Page 74.
1. intérieure, i.e. secret.

Page 75.
1. ce que je vous dois de, what I owe you in the way of.

2. voir les choses en beau, take a more cheerful view of things.

Page 76.
1. Faïence, porcelain; named after a city in Italy where much glazed ware is made.

2. le, this fact.

3. proclamation, cf. page 49, note 2.

Page 77.
1. faisais l'école des jeunes femmes, taught the girls.

Page 78.
1. Salut, our greetings to.

Page 79.
1. j'ai toujours, I still have.

2. la main retournée, "with his hand turned back against his ear;" i.e. with the palm turned forward and the fingers at the visor of the cap.

Page 80.
1. 2e, read: deuxième.

2. 1re, read: première.

Page 81. 1. Forvertz, cf. page 13, note 1.