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133, 34. "_Rohan ne puis, roi ne daigne. Rien je suis!_"--"Rohan I
cannot be, king I would not be. Nothing I am!"
135, 10. _grandes dames de par le monde_--great ladies of the world.
137, 6. "_O lachrymarum fons!_"--"O font of tears!"
140, 28. Jewess is in French, _juive_.
141, 10. "_Esker voo her jer dwaw lah vee? Ah! kel Bonnure!_"
Anglo-French for "_Est ce que vous que je dois laver. Ah!
quel bonheur!_"--"Is it that you that I must wash? Ah! What
happiness!"
142, 12. _Pazienza_--Patience.
143, 8. "_Ne sulor ultra crepidam!_"--"A cobbler should stick to
his last!"
145, 1. "_La cigale ayant chanté_," etc.
"The grasshopper, having sung
The summer through,
Found herself destitute
When the north wind came."...
146, 20. "_Spretæ injuria formæ_"--"The insult to her despised
beauty."
146, 31. _billets doux_--love letters.
152, 8. "_La plus forte des forces est un coeur innocent_"--"The
Strongest of strengths is an innocent heart."
154, 3. "_Tiens, tiens!... écoute!_"--"There, there! it's deucedly
pretty that--listen!"
154, 8. "_Mais, nom d'une pipe--elle est divine, cette
musique--là!_"--"But, by jingo, it's divine, that music!"
155, 26. _bourgeois_--the middle class.
155, 34. _nouveaux riches_--newly rich people.
158, 2. "_La mia letizia!_"--"My Joy!"
160, 17. "_Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre_," etc.
"Brave cavalier, off to the war,
What will you do
So far from here?
Do you not see that the night is dark,
And that the world
Is only care?"
160, 23. "_La Chanson de Barberine_"--"The Song of Barberine."
160, 28. _cascamèche_--nightcap tassel.
_moutardier du pape_--pope's mustardman.
_tromblon-bolivard_--broad-brimmed blunderbuss.
160, 29. _vieux coquelicot_--old poppy.
160, 31. "_Voos ayt oon ôter!_" Anglo-French for "_Vous êtes un
autre!_"--"You are another!"
162, 10. _C'est toujours comme ça_--It's always like that.
163, 17. _à bon chat, bon rat_--a Roland for an Oliver.
166, 14. _poudre insecticide_--insect-powder.
_mort aux punaises_--death to the bugs.
166, 22. _pensionnat de demoiselles_--young ladies' boarding-school.
166, 28. _Je connais ça_--I know that.
168, 8. _eau sucrée_--sweetened water.
168, 18. _Coeur de Lion_--Lion Heart.
_le Pré aux Clercs_--Parson's Green.
169, 17. _rapins_--art students.
170, 14. "_Bonjour, Monsieur Bonzig! comment allez-vous?_"--"Good-day,
Mr. Bonzig! how do you do?"
170, 17. "_Pardonnez-moi, monsieur--mais je n'ai pas l'honneur de
vous remettre!_"--"Pardon me, sir--but I have not the honor
to remember your face!"
170, 19. "_Je m'appelle Josselin--de chez Brossard!_"--"My name is
Josselin--from Brossard's!"
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