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the negative in exclamation, Poniatowski : see note, p, 26 |, 12.

dès is usually used of time, but occasionally of place, «. here,

réussir, ‘ to succeed,' is usually a neuter verb: but sometimes

is used actively, ar,d then means ‘to execute well” Jt js implied that the cripple would give an artistic finish to her work.

Chartreuse, ‘ charter-house, ‘convent' ‘solitary countryhouse ; also a cordial Or liqueur, compounded by the monks of the famous monastery of la Grande. Chartreuse, near Grenoble, with aromatic plants, growing on the mountains, and brandy,

Quinte et quatorze are here terms used in the game of Piquet. A guinte, or Quint," is composed of five Cards of the same colour, and counts fifteen. A Juatorse, or * fourteen ' Consists of four cards of the same value, as four aces, four kings, etc., and « ’unts fourteen, Av: vinte et quatorze is used figuratively for ‘to have the g + in one's own hands.

il n'y put tenir, ‘ he could not hold out," i.e, ‘he could not ar it any longer."

Mille tonnerres : cf. the German Donnerwetter. c'est fini: ie. ‘the change or reformation is complete,’

ment : the usual ending for French adverbs. It comes from the Latin mente, ablative case of mens, ‘a mind,’ used in the sense of ‘way,’ : fashion. Since mens was feminine, the adjective had to be always in the ablative feminine ; hence French adverbs are still formed, as a rule, by adding the Suffix ment to the feminine form of the adjective,

il sera mort: notice the future in French instead of the English present after a temporal conjunction.

tous les jours, ‘every day." Toute la Journée means ‘the whole day long.’

88 Title. Le Remplacant, ‘a substitute,' used technically of one who

takes the place of another, who is then called le remplacé, in military service. Ze remplacé is answerable for the conduct Of his remplaçant for à Year. The story of the Remplaçant seems to have been, in part at least, suggested to Coppée by the appearance of a boy who had been picked up out of the £&utter by the poet Catuille Mendès. Cf. the following quotation “vith the opening of tlie Story as told by Coppée :—

‘ Le souvenir nous transporte dans le petit rez-de-chaussée de ia rue de Douai, où demeurait Catulle Mendès, vers 1865

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