[ 3.] Un pauvre diable, a poor fellow.

[ 4.] Il sera, he must have; a common idiom of the future perfect.

[ 5.] à cette heure, just now.

[ 6.] il faudrait, less blunt and more courteous than il faut.

[ 7.] j'arrive, I will go; the French present for future and the verb used are more vivid than the English rendering.

Page 34.
[ 1.] Le décès constaté, the cause of death is determined.

Page 36.
[ 1.] j'aurais quelque chose à vous demander, I should like to ask a favor of you.

[ 2.] prairie communale, common; a part of nearly every European village.

Page 37.
[ 1.] Il me défendait toujours, he was all the time forbidding me.

[ 2.] la grande rue, the main street.