qu''a = qui a

1. 20. de ces sucrées de noisettes, a popular form of speech j the adjective would not be followed by de in the literary languago.

1. 22. Six mille pesant, six thousand pounds in weight ; pesant is hère a présent participle, not an adjective, its object being six mille ; it is therefore not inflected.

l. 27. Excusez du peu ! Only that ! how little ! said ironically.

1. 33. mon bourgeois, a familiar form of address among the Parisian people of the lower classes. A French workman speaks of his wife as ma bourgeoise.

Page 55. 1. 11. Newton. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the famous English mathematician and scientist, discoverer of the law of gravitation, and inventer of the binomial theorem.