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393, 18. _le que retranché_--name given in some French-Latin
grammars to the Latin form which expresses by the
infinitive verb and the accusative noun what in French is
expressed by "que" between two verbs.
394, 32. _alma mater dolorosa_--the tender and sorrowful mother.
394, 33. _marâtre au coeur de pierre_--stony-hearted mother.
396, 19. _Tendenz novels_--novels with a purpose.
396, 28. _nouvelle-riche_--newly rich.
404, 11. _on y est très bien_--one is very well there.
406, 26. "_Il est dix heures_" etc.--See note to page 254, line 21.
406, 30. _vilain mangeur de coeurs que vous êtes_--wretched eater of
hearts that you are.
407, 30. _Un vrai petit St. Jean! il nous portera bonheur, bien
sûr_--A perfect little St. John! he will bring us good
luck, for sure.
408, 27. _nous savons notre orthographie en musique là bas_--we know
our musical a b c's over there.
412, 8. _in-medio-tutissimus (ibis)_--You will go safest in the
middle.
412, 20. _diablement bien conservé_--deucedly well preserved.
413, 11. _O me fortunatum, mea si bona nôrim!_--O happy me, had I
known my own blessings!
414, 28. _un malheureux raté_--an unfortunate failure
415, 9. _abrutissant_--stupefying.
416, 15. _affaire d'estomac_--a matter of stomach.
418, 1. "_Je suis allé de bon matin_," etc.
"I went at early morn
To pick the violet,
And hawthorne, and jasmine,
To celebrate thy birthday.
With my own hands I bound
The rosebuds and the rosemary
To crown thy golden head.
"But for thy royal beauty
Be humble, I pray thee.
Here all things die, flower, summer,
Youth and life:
Soon, soon the day will be,
My fair one, when they'll carry thee
Faded and pale in a winding-sheet."
418, 19. _périssoires_--paddle-boats.
_pique-têtes_--diving-boards.
418, 21. _station balnéaire_--bathing resort.
419, 25. _utile dulci_--the useful with the pleasant.
420, 9. _la chasse aux souvenirs_--the hunt after remembrances.
420, 25, _s'est encanaillé_--keeps low company.
422, 25. _porte-cochère_--carriage entrance.
423, 1. "_Ah, ma foi!... la balle au camp_"--"Ah, my word, I
understand that, gentlemen--I, too, was a school-boy once,
and was fond of rounders."
423, 11. _Le Fils de la Vierge_--The Virgin's Son.
423, 12. _mutatis mutandis_--the necessary changes being made.
423, 34. "_Moi aussi, je fumais ... n'est ce pas?_"--"I too smoked
when it was forbidden; what do you expect? Youth must have
its day, musn't it?"
424, 3. _dame_--indeed.
425, 30. _cour des miracles_--the court of miracles. (A
meeting-place of beggars described in Hugo's "Notre Dame de
Paris." So called on account of the sudden change in the
appearance of the pretended cripples who came there.)
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