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81, 17. _charbonniers_--charcoal burners.
81, 25. _dépaysé_--away from home.
_désorienté_--out of his bearings.
81, 26. _perdu_--lost.
81, 27. "_Ayez pitié d'un pauvre orphelin!_"--"Pity a poor orphan!"
82, 19. "_Pioche bien ta géométrie, mon bon petit Josselin! c'est
la plus belle science au monde, crois-moi!_"--"Dig away at
your geometry, my good little Josselin! It's the finest
science in the world, believe me!"
82, 26. _bourru bienfaisant_--a gruff but good-natured man.
82, 34. "_Enfin! Ça y est! quelle chance!_"--"At last! I've got it!
what luck!"
83, 1. _quoi_--what.
83, 2. "_Le nord--c'est revenu!_"--"The north--it's come back!"
83, 7. _une bonne fortune_--a love adventure.
83, 10. _Les Laiteries_--The Dairies.
_Les Poteries_--The Potteries.
_Les Crucheries_--The Pitcheries (also The Stupidities).
83, 26. _toi_--thou.
83, 27. _vous_--you.
83, 28. _Notre Père_, etc.--See note to page 16, line 21.
83, 80. _Ainsi soit-il_--So be it.
84, 4. _au nom du Père_--in the name of the Father.
84, 31. _pavillon des petits_--building occupied by the younger
boys.
86, 4. _cancre_--dunce.
86, 5. _crétin_--idiot.
86, 6. _troisième_--third class.
86, 7. _Rhétorique_ (_seconde_)--Rhetoric (second class).
86, 8. _Philosophie_ (_première_)--Philosophy (first class).
86, 10. _Baccalauréat-ès-lettres_--Bachelor of letters.
87, 27. _m'amour_ (_mon amour_)--my love.
87, 33. _en beauté_--at his best.
88, 8. "_Le Chant du Départ_"--"The Song of Departure."
88, 10.
"_La victoire en chantant nous ouvre la carrière!
La liberté-é gui-i-de nos pas_" ...
"Victory shows us our course with song!
Liberty guides our steps" ...
88, 25. "_Quel dommage ... c'est toujours ça!_"--"What a pity that
we can't have crumpets! Barty likes them so much. Don't you
like crumpets, my dear? Here comes some buttered
toast--it's always that!"
88, 29. "_Mon Dieu, comme il a bonne mine ... dans la glace_"--"Good
heavens, how well he looks, the dear Barty!--don't
you think so, my love, that you look well? Look at yourself
in the glass."
88, 32. "_Si nous allions à l'Hippodrôme ... aussi les jolies
femmes?_"--"If we went to the Hippodrome this afternoon,
to see the lovely equestrian Madame Richard? Barty adores
pretty women, like his uncle! Don't you adore pretty women,
you naughty little Barty? and you have never seen Madame
Richard. You'll tell me what you think of her; and you, my
friend, do you also adore pretty women?"
89, 5. "_Ô oui, allons voir Madame Richard_"--"Oh yes! let us go
and see Madame Richard."
89, 9. _la haute école_--the high-school (of horsemanship).
89, 14. _Café des Aveugles_--Café of the Blind.
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