soti semblant de banquier, his would-be banker

Page 108. 1. 4. la boulangère, a round dance once very popular in France.

PAtSE 109. 1. 10. des trafics cC effets, a System of bills. 1. 23. canotier, oarsman.

Page 110. 1. 5. nous avons bâclé si lestement les choses, we settled matters so hastily.

1. 6. d'approuver Vécriture, to read and approve (légal expression).

notre p>etit sous-seing, our little private deed.

I. 15. qui tétait dégarni, wlio had exhausted the funds he had in hand ; se dégarnir, lit. to strip oneself.

son poHefeuille, the bills he had (from others) ; his papers.

1. 16. de faire un effet de deux mille francs à trois mois d'échéance, to niake out a bill of two thousand francs, payable in three months.