de siffles. Familiar : 'gone to the dogs

1. 22. le fourrer. Familiar : ' to get him to join, to shove him

into.'

Page 117. 1. 2. ce n'est pas la mort d'un homme, this is not the end of everything.

1. 5. il y a l'eu à plaider la rescision du contrat, there is good reason to allège the cancelling of the contract.

1. 9. qui voyait clair, who perceived the true state of afFairs.

1. 21. î7 a ««ej^è/-e^c7é',he has a splendidheadji.e.is intelligent.

Page 118. 1. 11. il revie7it, he is coming round.

1. 16. ne disait mot. There are a few expressions in which the definite or indefinite article is omitted, as hère ; cp. entendre raillerie, to take a joke ; they are survivais of a former use.

1. 19. rendit du ton à César, instilled some energy into Caesar.

1. 27. il se donne . . . un mal de galérien, he works like a galleyslave.

1. 28. comme s'il n'avait pas son pain gagné, as if he had to earn his daily bread.

1. 33. un médecin de l'école de Molière. Molière had no faith in the doctors of his time ; those who appear in his plays are therefore shown in a somewhat unfavoui-able light. They adhère blindly to tradition, and are as ostentatious as they are ignomnt.