[Footnote 86: #demi-lieue#. As now used the _lieue_ is colloquially 4 kilometres, or 2-1/2 miles. The old _lieue_ was of 4,444 metres, or not quite 3 miles, and there is also a _lieue marine_ of 5,555 metres, or 3 nautical miles. Say: _hardly a mile and a half_.] [Footnote 87: #Si#, _Of course_, or _Certainly_, here.] #Page 30.# [Footnote 88: #quel bonheur#, _how fortunate_, i.e., for me.] #Page 31.# [Footnote 89: #brigadier#, _sergeant_.--#exprès#, _messenger_.] [Footnote 90: #tiens à#, _desire to_.] #Page 32.# [Footnote 91: #n'assistiez seulement pas#, _were not even present_.] [Footnote 92: #duo#, _duet_. Italian.] #Page 33.# [Footnote 93: #brava#, _good_. Feminine of the Italian _bravo_. This grammatical accuracy shows good breeding.] #Page 34.# [Footnote 94: #cadette#, _younger_. Properly of sisters, but see dictionary.] [Footnote 95: #original#, _curious, queer_, "peculiar." Distinguish from _originel_, "original."] [Footnote 96: #cantabile# (sound the _e_-final), _piece of vocal music_. Italian.] #Page 35.# [Footnote 97: #incultes#, _uncultivated_ in musical matters.] [Footnote 98: #gauche#, _embarrassed_, rather than "awkward."] [Footnote 99: #tenait de#, _had a sort of_.] #Page 36.# [Footnote 100: #arbre fortuné#, i.e., the orange-tree.] [Footnote 101: #ses yeux ... à lui#, _his eyes--you know whom I mean_.] #Page 37.# [Footnote 102: #effacées#, _drawn back_ and down so as to set off the corsage.] [Footnote 103: #Que trop#, _Only too charming_.] #Page 38.# [Footnote 104: #dépare#. Note the play on #parer#, and compare the English saying: Beauty when unadorned is most adorned.] [Footnote 105: #rester court#, _stop short_ from embarrassment.] [Footnote 106: #J'y suis#, _I have it_, i.e., know what I will do.] ACT II. SCENE 4. #Page 39.# [Footnote 107: #traversent#, _cross over_. A figure in the quadrille.] ACT II. SCENE 6. #Page 40.# [Footnote 108: #à en être#, _have a part in it_.] [Footnote 109: #Toujours du roman#, _You are always a little romantic_ in your ideas.] #Page 41.# [Footnote 110: #m'en défendre#, _help it_.] [Footnote 111: #Qu' ... belle#, _How beautiful_. Though this use of _que_ is very common, it often puzzles beginners.] [Footnote 112: #vienne la sentence#, _let the sentence come_. Optative.] [Footnote 113: #madrigaux#, _pretty speeches_; properly "madrigals," or love-songs, in the artificial pastoral manner. Originally a form of musical composition.] #Page 42.# [Footnote 114: #désintéressement#, _unselfish devotion_. This speech is a good example of what the French call _blague_,--a sort of light-hearted mockery of moral ideals. See my note to "Le Gendre de monsieur Poirier," p. 5, note 7.] #Page 43.# [Footnote 115: #original#, _queer_, "a strange coincidence." Not "original" (_originel_), Cp. p. 34, note 2.] ACT II. SCENE 8. [Footnote 116: #Que de#, _How many_.--#à#, i.e., _I ought to_.--#me valoir#, _gain for me_.]