à vingt reprises, twenty times over

1. 20. hon sujet, you honest fellow ; un mauvais sujet is a goodfor-nothing fellow.

1. 23. je me donne un mal de chien caniche, I take as much trouble as a poodle, I work like a nigger.

1. 33. En voilà de l'honneur, à la bonne mesure et les quatre au cent. 'There's honourableness for you, well-measured and with an extra four in a hundred thrown in.' In many parts of France, and sometimes also in England— in Devonshire, for instance — things sold by the hundred count as 104.

1. 36. votre petit rouge, that little red-haired fellow of yours.

1. 37. sans chicaner les prix, without haggling about priées.

Page 195. 1. 4. je cornerai votre honneur, I will trumpet your sensé of honour.

1. 5. elle est rare, la farce, it's a rare joke. 1. 27. tme flûte, a little half-penny roll.

Page 196. 1. 7. la fleur, the fresh colours. 1. 16. // se coulait, he crept.

1. 22. ])laie d'argent fi'est pas mortelle, expression in proverb form : ' loss of money infiicts no fatal wound.' 1. 38. la cession du bail. See note to p. 46, 1. 27.

Page 197. 1. 14. en compte, on account.