il serait vrai, 'can it be true

1. 20. vous avez beau dire. This is an ironical use of an expression which in earlier times was used in its natural sensé. ' You hâve a fine opportunity for saying,' 'it is no good your saying...' Avoir beau faire quelque chose means ' if you do do something it will be in vain.'

1. 32. les as, 'the aces.' The word is derived from the Latin 'ûj' which was the unit of measure ; and so it came to be used of the càrd, or the sida of a dice-cube, which is marked with a single point.

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