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11 12 les attendait toujours: 'continued to wait for them'; note this force of toujours; cf. 26 11, 71 20. 'armed cap a pic' Cap = 'head' is obsolete except in this expression and in a few technical terms. 11 20 Branle-bas de combat! 11 24 entre drap et flanelle: transl.
Your Excellency may assure M. Guizot that her Majesty's government attach no special value to the right of search, except in so far as it affords an effectual means of suppressing the slave trade.
Do not make the mistake of thinking Tartarin a lunatic. Just as his immortal predecessor Don Quixote was thoroughly sane except in that which touched the realm of chivalry, so Tartarin is a normal Frenchman except when he is under the influence of the southern mirage.
80 19 devant: devant for avant, auparavant, is obsolete except in certain locutions such as comme devant. 80 25 douar: 'douar, an Arab village, composed of tents arranged with more or less regularity. plaine du Cheliff: the broad part of the Sheliff basin is in the half desert plateau between the Great Atlas and the Little Atlas.
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