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342, 18. _je tâcherai de ne pas en abuser trop!_--I will try not to
take too much of it!
344, 15. _le dernier des Abencerrages_--the last of the
Abencerrages. (The title of a story by Châteaubriand.)
347, 24. _à mon insu_--unknown to me.
354, 11. _On a les défauts de ses qualités_--One has the faults of
one's virtues.
354, 15. _joliment dégourdie_--finely sharpened.
358, 10. _La quatrième Dimension_--The Fourth Dimension.
360, 25. _nous avons eu la main heureuse_--we have been fortunate.
360, 28. _smalah_--encampment of an Arab chieftain.
363, 19. _Je suis homme d'affaires_--I am a man of business.
373, 28. _un conte à dormir debout_--a story to bore one to sleep.
374, 23. _Ou avions-nous donc la tête et les yeux?_--What were we
doing with our minds and eyes?
377, 1. "_Cara deúm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum_"--"The dear
offspring of God, the increase of Jove."
378, 22. _Tous les genres sont bons, hormis le genre ennuyeux_--All
kinds are good, except the boring kind.
380, 3. _C'était un naïf, le beau Josselin_--He was ingenuous, the
handsome Josselin.
381, 9. _Arma virumque cano_--Arms and the man I sing.--The first
words of Virgil's _Æneid_.
_Tityre tu patulæ (recubans sub tegmine fagi)_--Thou,
Tityrus, reclining beneath the shade of a spreading
beech.--The first line of the first _Eclogue_ of Virgil.
_Mæcenas atavis (edite regibus)_--Mæcenas descended from
royal ancestors.--Horace, _Odes_, 1, 1, l.
381, 10. [Greek: Mênin aeide]--Sing the wrath.--The first words of
Homer's _Iliad_.
381, 21. _Débats--Le Journal des Débats_,--a Parisian literary
newspaper.
386, 3. _sommité littéraire_--literary pinnacle.
386, 16. _Rouillon Duval_--a class of cheap restaurants in Paris.
386, 30. _Étoiles Mortes_--Dead Stars.
388, 5. _la coupe_--the cutwater.
388, 11. _à la hussarde_--head first.
389, 2. _la très-sage Héloïse_--the most learned Heloise. (Another
of the ladies mentioned in Villon's "Ballade of the Ladies
of Olden Time." See note to page 24, line 30.)
389, 5. _nous allons arranger tout ça_--we'll arrange all that.
389, 20. _C'est la chasteté même, mais ce n'est pas Dèjanire_--It is
chastity itself, but it is not Dèjanire.
390, 20. _très élégante_--very elegant.
390, 22. _d'un noir de jais, d'une blancheur de lis_--jet black,
lily white.
391, 1. _ah, mon Dieu, la Diane chasseresse, la Sapho de
Pradier!_--ah, My God, Diana the huntress, Pradier's
Sappho!
391, 8. _un vrai type de colosse bon enfant, d'une tenue
irréprochable_--a perfect image of a good-natured colossus,
of irreproachable bearing.
391, 15. _tartines_--slices of bread and butter.
391, 17. _une vraie ménagerie_--a perfect menagerie.
392, 7. _belle châtelaine_--beautiful chatelaine.
393, 1. _gazebo_--summer-house.
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