L. 80. _Elle est pour moi marâtre._ _Marâtre_ is an adjective
here=inexorable.
L. 87. _Je m'occupe à leurs jeux._ For a distinction between _s'occuper
à_ and _s'occuper de_ see Littré, _Dict._, s.v. 'occuper,' Remarque. The
meaning here is: I occupy my mind in seeing them play.
L. 88. _sur la rosée et sur l'herbe brillante_, a hendiadys for _sur
l'herbe brillante de rosée_.
L. 93. _Deux fois... promenés._ An ablative absolute. _Promener_, of
course, is not the proper word for 'driving' a flock, but an expression
of angry contempt for the tedious and, as it were, unprofitable work.