je le lançais, I set him up in business

1. 19. en fait de morale, in questions of morality. Cp. note to p. 146, 1. 9.

1. 27. à plat ventre, lit. prostrate ; * in an attitude of subraissive respect.'

Page 162. 1. 7. ma p>oHion de bénéfices, my share in the profits.

1. 27. à qui on aurait donné le bon Dieu sans confession, who would hâve been admitted to communion withôut previous confession (understood : ' so innocent did he look '). The Catholic Church requires of its followers to confess their sins and obtain absolution for them before receiving holy communion.

1. 32. souscrire des effets de complaisance, to sign accommodation bills in order to oblige. See note to p. 124, 1. 22.

Page 163. 1. 3. à bon entendeur salut, a word to the wise. 1. 13./« cassation de son arrêt,the repeal of his sentence.

le rejet de son poun-oi, the rejection of his appeal. 1. 20. des billets à quatre-vingt-dix jours, bills due in ninety days (i. e. roughly speaking, three months).

Page 164. 1. 16. hésitant à monter au jeu, wavering whether to go in and gamble or not.

1. 20. faisant monter à Vâme toute la gamme . . ., making his feelings go through the whole scale . . .