fausses valeurs, worthless bills

Page 137. 1. 19. où vous êtes engagé dans les rouages de Vafl'aire, when you are caught in the wheels of your enterprise.

l. 29. les créances sur le roi, Government bonds.

Page 138. 1. 28. Un tigre, gros comme le poing, a little ' buttons/ no bigger than one's fist.

Page 139. 1. 5. arrière-pensée, mental réservation.

Page 140. 1. 3. Tu bats la breloque, you are losing your head. The raetaphor is taken from the beating of the drum known as la breloque or berloque, which is an irregular beat, formerly used as a signal for eating, and now as the * dismiss.'

1. 13. On peut se laisser aller au sein de la misère, it is possible to give way weakly to poverty.

1. 19. lift du repentir la vertu des motiels. The correct form of this quotation is Dieuft du repentir la vertu des motiels ; it is taken from Voltaire's drama Olympie, Act II, Se. ii.

1. 22. si vous veniez à, if you happened to . . . Cp. re?2ir de faire quelque chose, to hâve just done something. 1. 24. flamhés. Cp. sifflé, note to p. 116, 1. 18.

Page 141. 1. 12. industriel, manufacturer.