Authors -- Fiction; Human-alien encounters -- Fiction; Martians -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction
112, 9. _vous êtes un paltoquet et un rustre_--you are a clown and
a boor.
112, 18. _classe de géographie ancienne_--class of ancient
geography.
112, 25. "_Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes!_"--"I fear the Greeks even
when they bear gifts!"
114, 3. "_Le troisième coup fait feu, vous savez_"--"The third blow
strikes fire, you know."
114, 23. _tisanes_--infusions.
114, 31. "_C'est moi qui voudrais ... comme il est poli_"--"It's
myself that would like to have the mumps here. I should
delay my convalescence as much as possible!"
"How well your uncle knows French, and how polite he is!"
116, 13. _Nous avons tous passé par là_--We have all been through
it.
116, 33. "_Te rappelles-tu ... du père Jaurion?_"--"Do you recall
Berquin's new coat and his high-hat?"
"Do you remember father Jaurion's old angora cat?"
118, 7. "_Paille à Dine_," etc., is literally:
"Straw for Dine--straw for Chine--
Straw for Suzette and Martine--
Good bed for the Dumaine!"
119, 1. "_Pourquoi, m'sieur?_"
"_Parce que ça me plaît!_"
"What for, sir?"
"Because it pleases me!"
119, 18. _un point_, etc.--a period--semi-colon--colon--exclamation
--inverted commas--begin a parenthesis.
119, 31. "_Te rappelles-tu cette omelette?_"--"Do you remember that
omelette?"
120, 1. _version écrite_--written version.
120, 15. _que malheur!_--what a misfortune!
120, 19. "_Ça pue l'injustice, ici!_"--"It stinks of injustice,
here!"
120, 25. "_Mille francs par an! ç'est le Pactole!_"--"A thousand
francs a year! it is a Pactolus!"
122, 7. "_Je t'en prie, mon garçon!_"--"I pray you, my boy!"
123, 24. _La chasse aux souvenirs d'enfance!_--Hunting remembrances
of childhood!
124, 3. "_Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées_," etc.
"I will walk with my eyes fixed on my thoughts,
Seeing nothing outside, without hearing a sound--
By myself, unknown, with bowed back and hands crossed:
Sad--and the day will for me be as night."
125, 4. _beau comme le jour_--beautiful as day.
125, 6. _la rossignolle_--the nightingale (feminine.)
125, 15. "_A Saint-Blaize, à la Zuecca_" etc.
"At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ...
You were, you were very well!
At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ...
We were, we were happy there!
But to think of it again
Will you ever care?
Will you think of it again?
Will you come once more?
At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ...
To live there and to die!"
125, 32. _fête de St.-Cloud_--festival of St. Cloud.
125, 33. _blanchisseuse_--laundress.
133, 30. "_Roy ne puis, prince ne daigne, Rohan je suis!_"--"King I
Cannot be, prince I would not be, Rohan I am!"
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