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Page 6i Ime 14— De ce matin : Only this morning.

61 17— Algarade: A sudden outburst of temper. Intro-

duced in the seventeenth century from Spanish algarada, which cornes from Arabie al, the, and gharet, military incursion. Notice.— Il m'a fait essuyer une terrible algarade, he rated me fearfully, he blew me up terribly,

62 II— En se jouant: With the greatest facility. En

plaisantant, as a sport.

62 12— Que j'arrive seulement au pouvoir: Let me only come into office.

62 14— En confidence : In confidence, as a secret. Notice.

— Confidence must not be confounded with con- ' fiance. I have great confidence in you, j'ai grande confiance en vous ; That inspires confidence, cela donne de la confiance ; I put an entire trust in him, j'ai pris une entière confiance en lui.— He was in the secret, il était dans la confidence ; Listen attentively to the disclosure I am going to make you, écoutez attentivement la confidence que je vais vous faire.

62 23-Gendre : Son-in-law; from Lat. gêner, by

regular contraction oî generum into genWum, whence gendre.

63 7— La corbeille : Wedding présents, which a bride-

groom sends to his bride in a beautifully orna-

mented basket; from Lat. corbicula, dimi-

nutive of corbis, basket.

63 19— Depuis quand lui est-il permis ... : How ^n^j

has he been allowed (has he taken the

liberty) , . .

63 20— A coup sûr : To be sure.