Xafflft»fM<.— A French landscape painter, bom

16. Tu $aù bien, — M. Malingear, forgetting the injnnction of his infe in the preceding scene^ ** Surtout ne me tutoie pas devant cette dame," hère sa^s tu ; correcting hîmself, he then sajB vous ; which afterwards calls from Emmeline the exclamation, ^ Vous I . . . eat-ce que papa et maman sont fâchés? "...

17. Et patatil et paiata! . . . — Onomatopœia, nsed only in the most iamiliar style, to Imitate the gallop of a horse. Hère it renders the idea, " What a rate my wife is going at ! "

18. RwÀz. — Â French chemist, bom in 1810, whose name is insep»ràbly connected with the electro-galvanic process of gilding metals.

19. Dix UmU dans ce plat, &c. — The previous and subséquent manager ment of Madame Malingear, in regard to the numbers of admission given to patients when they are numerous, explains itself. She now does what may need some expïanation to those unacquainted with French cnstoms. The fées of celebrated phjrsicians are generally known, and those who corne to consolt them do not ask what they owe, nor do they présent money directiy, but deposit, as they leave the apartment, what custom prescribes, or what their generosity may prompt them to give, upon some article of ftimiture. At the end of the next scène, we shall see Batinois ^o through this ridiculous mode of proceeding, — a fiishion more ancient than reasonable.

20* Je me porte comme le pont Neuf, — I am as well as I can be. The pont Neuf is found in a great number of familiar proverbial expressions. This ancient bridge has lost its former quaint physiognomy during the présent century; especially since 1852. "Se porter comme le pont Keuf " was said in allusion to the great solidity of the structure.