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14, 8. "_Fermez votre pupitre_"--"Shut your desk."
14, 34. _jocrisse_--effeminate man.
15, 1. _paltoquet_--clown.
_petit polisson_--little scamp.
15, 32. _lingère_--seamstress.
16, 13. _quatrième_--fourth class.
16, 21. "_Notre Père, ... les replies les plus profonds de nos
coeurs_"--"Our Father, who art in heaven, Thou whose
searching glance penetrates even to the inmost recesses of
our hearts."
16, 24. "_au nom du Père, du Fils, et du St. Esprit, ainsi
soit-il!_"--"in the name of the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, so be it!"
18, 21. _concierge_--janitor.
_croquets_--crisp almond cakes.
18, 22. _blom-boudingues_--plum puddings.
_pains d'épices_--gingerbreads.
_sucre-d'orge_--barley sugar.
18, 23. _nougat_--almond cake.
_pâte de guimauve_--marshmallow paste.
_pralines_--burnt almonds.
_dragées_--sugarplums.
18, 30. _le père et la mère_--father and mother.
19, 2. _corps de logis_--main buildings.
19, 13. _la table des grands_--the big boys' table.
_la table des petits_--the little boys' table.
19, 27. _brouet noir des Lacédémoniens_--the black broth of the
Spartans.
20, 25. _À la retenue_--To be kept in.
20, 29. _barres traversières_--crossbars.
20, 30. _la raie_--leap-frog.
21, 14. _rentiers_--stockholders.
21, 20. _Classe d'Histoire de France au moyen âge_--Class of the
History of France during the Middle Ages.
21, 27. _trente-septième légère_--thirty-seventh light infantry.
22, 13. _nous avons changé tout cela!_--we have changed all that!
22, 16. _représentant du peuple_--representative of the people.
22, 19. _les nobles_--the nobles.
22, 27. _par parenthèse_--by way of parenthesis.
22, 30. _lingerie_--place where linen is kept.
24, 30. _Berthe aux grands pieds_--Bertha of the big feet. (She was
the mother of Charlemagne, and is mentioned in the poem
that Du Maurier elsewhere calls "that never to be
translated, never to be imitated lament, the immortal
'Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis'" of François Villon.)
25, 23. _Allée du Bois de Boulogne_--Lane of the Bois de Boulogne.
25, 28. _pensionnat_--boarding-school.
28, 4. _la belle Madame de Ronsvic_--the beautiful Lady Runswick.
28, 33. _deuxième Spahis_--second Spahi regiment.
30, 4. _Mare aux Biches_--The Roes Pool.
30, 14. _la main si malheureuse_--such an unfortunate hand.
31. 2. _La Dieppoise_--a dance of Dieppe.
31, 5. "_Beuvons, donc_," etc.
"Let's drink, drink, drink then
Of this, the best wine in the world ...
Let's drink, drink, drink then
Of this, the very best wine!
For if I didn't drink it,
I might get the pip!
Which would make me...."
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