ntaut bien se dire cela, — It must be admitted
5. Tachons d'enlever cette affaire-là aujourd'hui, tout de suite, — Lei us try to carry that point to-dfay, immediatelv. Enlever is hère nsed in a sensé akin to its military meaning ; as, enlever un vaisseau, to cazry a ship bj boarding.
6. L*art hd-méme vous fera défaut. — Art itself will abandon you.
7. Vous avez beau vous fâcher, --Y om need not get angry. For the explanation of beau used in the sensé of '* in Tain, see Note 11 to La Maison de Penarvan.
8. Au Havre, — Havre literally means haven, harbor ; hence the use of the article in Le Havre, du Havre, au Havre. Its ancient name wa« Le Havre de Grâce, from a small chapel of Notre Dame de Grâce, which stood on its site. — Talents, a few lines lower, means aceomplish' tnents, It has always this meaning in the plural, unless used elliptically for men of talent.
9. La Vigie, — Literally, "the look-out;" hère it xs the name of a newspaper.
10. Cela m'a saisie, — That startled me. The same word occurs again, in nearly the same sensé, near the end of Scène YII. ; and a few unes farther, in the beginning of the next scène, the noun saisissement is used in the sensé of shock,
11. Oh! que si, — O, y es it is. Si is a much more emphatic affirmative than oui. — See Note 48 to Les Petits Oiseaux, — In Scène X. NoCl ■ays, " Si fait" yes indeed.
12. H perd la tête, — He becomes excited — loses ail présence of mind.
13. Je suis en nage. — I am ail in a perspiration. The expression être en nage is a corrupted form of être en aqe, and has nothing to do with nager, to swim. Age, like the Provençal aiguë, is merely a more ancient form of the word eau, nearer in form to the Latin primitive 4Hfwa; so that être en nage is etymologically the same as être em. eau.
14. Votun'Hêi poê dégoûté, — Alwayt used ironically for. Ton an not hard to please ; you are not too particular.
15. Elle est bien atteinte, ce chagrtn Fa frm^.— It was a heaTy blow ; this lorrow bas shattered lier.
16. Je êttiê tout bouleversé, fC est-ce pas f Toi la figure tout à Penvere t — I am ail unsettled— am I not ? i look ail out of sorts. A Venverê means literally inside out, or upside down.
17. Quinze jours,-- A. fortnight. — See Note TQ to La BaiaiUe de Jktfnes,
18. Je ne m'y reconnais plus, 1 don't know where I am any more* «— Études, a few Unes below, means drawings.
19. Songe qu*il y va de la vie de maman, — Think or remember that mother's ufe dépends upon it.
20. Sortir ma Joie, — Express my joy. Sortir is now seldom nsed in this itsprimîtiTe signification, to cause to gush forth.
21. Tu n*en veux point à MathUde, n'est-ce ptu f — Tou are not rexed with Mathilde — are tou ?
22. Je n*y tenais plus, — I could not stand it any longer ; or, I eould not hold out any longer.
23. Cela m* a monté la tète, — Tbat excited me — tumed my head.
24. N'allez-vous pas faire des façons avec celui-là/'— Axe you going to stand upon ceremony with him ?
25. Vous en devinez plus qu'il n*jf en a, vous me faites perdre la tête, —You suess more (make more of it) than there is ; you oriye me mad«
26. Mon Dieu. —This ever-recurring exclamation has already been Bpoken of in Note 8 to La Maison de Penarvan, It has by no means the force which it would seem to hâve if literally translated into English. Heavens! or even Goodness! or any such exclamation mav be used to render it. The English language is not free from such expletlTes; and the innocent O, dear! or Dearmel is etymolop^cally very nearly allied to Mon Dieu ! — although it may be almost universally uttered without recalling any idea of its origin or primitive signification.
Bbmabx. — Throughont this play no diœresis is placed oyer the name Noël whenever it is printed in capitals. This is the gênerai, though not uniyersal, usage. Many grammarians object to the use of the msresis over the e in Noil^ poeme^ ponte, which they write Noël, poème, poète.
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