Revisiting previous notes and refreshing the set “lancer / partir / commencer / démarrer”, also “comprimer / dilater”. And “assez”. Everything else didn’t seem important and preventing me from proceeding further into reading.
L’odeur chaude des cataplasmes se mêlait dans sa tête à la verte odeur de la rosée (The warm scent of the poultices mingled in his mind with the green scent of the dew.)
Cataplasmes I can totally ignore. In the context I do understand it is related to the topic of medicine, which is good enough. The point is he is falling asleep and present perceptions are being mixed together with something from his daily life.
Mêler - to mix. Makes a good pair with a verb from the previous sentence confondre - to confuse, to mix up. Except the first is neutral and the latter is rather negative, having an implication of a mistake.
un cultivateur des plus aisés (a very wealthy farmer)
Aisé - wealthy. The feminine version is aisée. Words likes this, with confusing distinction between classes are always painful.
Il s’était cassé la jambe, la veille au soir, en revenant de faire les Rois, chez un voisin (He had broken his leg the previous evening, on his way back from celebrating Epiphany at a neighbor’s house.)
What’s actually a bit confusing to me here is the use of chez. Previously I had an understanding that it always means towards, moving into something from somewhere. Now it paints a slightly different picture, that it rather an indication of a place where people live. Something like an animate “at”.
Veille - eve. Very easy to confuse with vielle - old (feminine)