chaperoning; monitoring someone's behaviour; watchdog; chaperone; watcher
strongly attached to each other; inseparable
choucroute; sauerkraut; choucroute garnie; sauerkraut cooked and served with meat
gaining a perfect knowledge of natural laws
to get; to obtain; to come by; to find
fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours
long walk; roundabout way
to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse
curing (meat, etc.); preservative treatment
imperial decree; imperial edict
south coast; southern shore
stand-offish; distant; not frank; watery (alcohol, coffee, etc.)
hindrance; offense; offence; prohibition