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102, 30. "_Ah! ma chère Mamzelle Marceline!... Et une boussole dans
l'estomac!_"--"Ah! my dear Miss Marceline, if they were
only all like that little Josselin! things would go as if
they were on wheels! That English youngster is as innocent
as a young calf! He has God in his heart." "And a compass
in his stomach!"
104, 29. "_Ah! mon cher!... Chantez-moi ça encore une fois!_"--"Ah!
my dear! what wouldn't I give to see the return of a whaler
at Whitby! What a 'marine' that would make! eh? with the
high cliff and the nice little church on top, near the old
abbey--and the red smoking roofs, and the three stone
piers, and the old drawbridge--and all that swarm of
watermen with their wives and children--and those fine
girls who are waiting for the return of the loved one! By
Jove! to think that you have seen all that, you who are not
yet sixteen ... what luck! ... say--what does that really
mean?--that
'Weel may the keel row!'
Sing that to me once again!"
105, 21. "_Ah! vous verrez ... vous y êtes, en plein!_"--"Ah! you
will see, during the Easter holidays I will make such a
fine picture of all that! with the evening mist that
gathers, you know--and the setting sun, and the rising
tide, and the moon coming up on the horizon, and the
sea-mews and the gulls, and the far-off heaths, and your
grandfather's lordly old manor; that's it, isn't it?"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Bonzig--you are right in it."
106, 29. "_C'était dans la nuit brune_," etc.
"'Twas in the dusky night
On the yellowed steeple,
The moon,
Like a dot on an i!"
108, 17. _en flagrant délit_--in the very act.
109, 4. _la perfide Albion_--perfidious Albion.
109, 8. "_À bas Dumollard!_"--"Down with Dumollard!"
109, 17. _l'étude entière_--the whole school.
109, 19. "_Est-ce toi?_"--"Is it thou?"
109, 23. "_Non, m'sieur, ce n'est pas moi!_"--"No, sir, it isn't
me!"
110, 17. "_Parce qu'il aime les Anglais, ma foi--affaire de
goût!_"--"Because he likes the English, in faith--a matter of
taste!"
110, 19. "_Ma foi, il n'a pas tort!_"--"In faith, he's not wrong!"
110, 24.
"_Non! jamais en France,
Jamais Anglais ne régnera!_"
"No! never in France,
Never shall Englishman reign!"
111, 5. _au piquet pour une heure_--in the corner for an hour.
_a la retenue_--kept in.
111, 6. _privé de bain_--not to go swimming.
_consigné dimanche prochain_--kept in next Sunday.
111, 9. _de mortibus nil desperandum_--an incorrect version of _de
mortuis nil nisi bonum_: of the dead nothing but good.
111, 27. _avec des gens du monde_--with people in society.
111, 34. _et, ma foi, le sort a favorisé M. le Marquis_--and, in
faith, fortune favored M. le Marquis.
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