259. THE CONTRACT was considered almost as binding as a marriage. Remember
this.
260-2. As soon as a young man arrived at the proper age, the community
built him a house, broke the land about it, and supplied him with all the
necessaries of life for twelve months. Then he received the partner whom he
had chosen, and who brought him her portion in flocks. ABBE REYNAL.
III.
280. LOUP GAROU ( l[=o][=o]-ga-r[=o][=o] ) means man-wolf. There was a
tradition that a man had the power to change himself into a wolf to devour
children.
282. LETICHE (l[=a]-t[=e]sh').
293. IN SOOTH, in truth.
307. A figure with scales in the left hand and a sword in the right is
sometimes used to represent Justice.
354. THE CURFEW was a bell tolled in the evening as a signal to put out the
fires and go to bed.
381. See Gen. XXI, 14.
IV.
413. The names of two French songs.
442. The summer solstice is on the 21st of June. The sun is then farthest
north, being over the Tropic of Cancer. It seems to stand still for a short
time.
466. The author contrasts the clamor of the throng and the quiet words of
Father Felician by referring to rapid strokes of the alarm and the quiet,
measured strokes of the hour.
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