[89] SANS DIFFICULTE. See _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 154. [90] DE NE VOUS PAS AIMER. _De ne pas vous aimer_ is the more natural order in modern French. [91] IL N'A QUE FAIRE DE, 'He has no need to.' Compare _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note, 141. [92] C'EST UN PORTRAIT DE FEMME. The construction of the sentence is peculiar and incomplete. It requires the introduction, before _c'est un portrait_, of the words _c'est que_. In modern French the awkwardness of this form would be obviated. In the second clause _que_ would have to be prefixed to _c'est ici_. [93] QUAND. _Puisque_ is also found in incomplete expressions of this kind. The thought might be completed as follows: _Mais, quand_ (or _puisque_) _je vous dis, etc., vous devriez me croire_. [94] ENTENDU, used here in the sense of _compris_. [95] HUPPEES, 'Fancy,' 'smartly dressed.' It often means 'smart.' Compare; "Combien en as-tu vu, je dis des plus huppees." (Racine, _Les Plaideurs_, J, 4); "Bien huppe qui pourra m'attraper sur ce point!" (Moliere, _Ecole des femmes_, 1, I). [96] JE N'EN RABATS RIEN, 'I retract nothing.' That is to say, 'I insist that it is the Count.' [97] PLAISANT, 'Ridiculous.' [98] COMME DE CELA. With some gesture of contempt. See _le Legs_, note 108. [99] LUI. For _le_. The verb _defier_ governs to-day the accusative and not the dative. [100] QU'IL. Later editions print _qui_, which is the correct form. The thought may be expressed more simply by the phrase _Je l'avais vu le contempler_. [101] CE QUI EST DE SUR = _Ce qu'il y a de sur_. [102] LE SUJET = _La raison_. [103] DE BONNE MAIN, 'By a reliable person.' (Littre, "main," 17º.) [104] CONSENS... DE. The verb _consentir_ takes either _de_ or _a_, before a following infinitive, although in modern French the latter is the more common. [105] TOUS PROCES. Later editions print _tout proces_, which is the more natural modern form. The plural, in the sense of 'each' or 'every' is, however, sometimes found without the article. Compare: "L'auteur des dialogues a dit que les belles sont de tous pays, et moi je dis que les sottises sont de tous les siecles " (Fontenelle, _Jugement de Pluton_). [106] AVOIR PRISE ... AVEC, 'To have a dispute with.' PRISE, 'Quarrel,' 'dispute' (Littre, 6 deg., also Dict. de l'Acad., 1878). [107] TOUS. Later editions print _tout_, which is the modern form. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries is was not customary to consider the adverbial _tout_ as necessarily invariable. [108] MOUVEMENT. See _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 162. [109] DONT. _Que is preferable. See _Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 175. [110] SAVOIS. A not uncommon use of the imperfect indicative in the sense of the conditional. [111] JE N'AUROIS QUE FAIRE DE. See _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 68. Compare _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 141, and _le Legs_, note 85. [112] A TOI. The English idiom is 'of you.' [113] AU MOINS, 'Nevertheless.'