At any rate, when I gave my translation to B.F.

to turn back again into French, one reason was that I thought it would sound a little bald in English, and some people might think it was meant to have some local bearing or other,--which the author, of course, didn't mean, inasmuch as he could not be acquainted with anything on this side of the water.
[The above remarks were addressed to the school-mistress, to whom I handed the paper after looking it over.

The divinity-student came and read over her shoulder,--very curious, apparently, but his eyes wandered, I thought.

Fancying that her breathing was somewhat hurried and high, or thoracic, as my friend, the Professor, calls it, I watched her a little more closely .-- It is none of my business .-- After all, it is the imponderables that move the world, -- heat, electricity, love.

Habet ?] This is the piece that Benjamin Franklin made into boarding-school French, such as you see here; don't expect too much;--the mistakes give a relish to it, I think.
LES SOCIETES POLYPHYSIOPHILOSOPHIQUES.
Ces Societes la sont une Institution pour suppleer aux besoins d'esprit et de coeur de ces individus qui ont survecu a leurs emotions a l'egard du beau sexe, et qui n'ont pas la distraction de l'habitude de boire.
Pour devenir membre d'une de ces Societes, on doit avoir le moins de cheveux possible.