r 'Song of
Solomon,' full of the Oriental phraseology of passion.

_58_ 28 _qu'il se put voir:_ (= _put se voir_) 'that could be seen,' 'that
ever was seen', cf. notes to _4_ 23 (_il_ impersonal), _5_ 23 (_se voir_,
reflexive with passive force).

_59_ 7 _Allons:_ plain imperative, not the exclamation cf. _58_ 6.

_59_ 15 _l'esperer:_ for this _le_ cf. note to _25_ 18.

_59_ 16 _du reste:_ 'besides.'

_59_ 29 _casse-tete a pointes:_ 'war club with spikes', cf. note to _2_
20.

_59_ 32 _le haut de la ville:_ = _la ville haute_ (_37_ 27).

_60_ 5 _cour interieure:_ Oriental houses are built in the form of a
hollow square, the house surrounding the courtyard on all sides.

_60_ 8 _plus forte:_ 'stouter.'

_60_ 9 _ne fit que traverser:_ 'did no more than pass through,' 'merely
passed through.'

_60_ 13 _sous les ramages ... fleurs:_ 'under the figures of her flowered
dress'--_laissant deviner:_ cf. note to _7_ 23.

_60_ 14 _friande a point:_ 'dainty to the point of perfection.'

_60_ 15 _ronde de partout:_ 'round all over'--_narghile:_ 'nargile,' a
Turkish pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water, a hookah.

_60_ 16 _toute:_ 'entirely.'

_60_ _chapter heading_ _Sidi:_ among the Mohammedans a title of respect,
when addressed to a foreigner, about equivalent to Mr--_ben:_ Arabic, 'son
of' 'Tartarin son of Tartarin.'

_60_ 24 _a la veillee:_ 'at the gossiping hour' _Veillee_ = a sitting up
at night for work or pleasure, especially to tell stories.

_60_ 28 _voici ... deja:_ 'already several years ago,' 'several years have
already passed since then.'

_60_ 29 _dame du cru:_ 'native girl', cf. note to _26_ 6.

_61_ 2 _n'est autre que:_ 'is no other than.'

_61_ 4 _Qu'est-ce que vous voulez:_ 'what can you expect?' lit. 'what do
you wish?' Cf. _75_ 18.

_61_ 7 _durant:_ cf. note to _53_ 5.

_61_ 9 _Annibal a Capoue:_ 'Hannibal at Capua.' After the battle of Cannae
(216 B.C.) in which the Roman army was overwhelmed, Hannibal, the
Carthaginian general, instead of following up his success, retired for the
winter into Capua, where his army was demoralized by the enervating
influences of the luxury loving city. Livy makes this to have been the
cause of Hannibal's failure--a view now generally discredited.

_61_ 15 _confitures au musc:_ 'preserves perfumed with musk.'

_61_ 19 _se faisait des mines:_ 'made grimaces to herself.'

_61_ 23 _avait tout le temps de:_ 'had plenty of time to.'

_62_ 2 _la