voilà, i.e. voilà tout

3. qui tenaient les cordons du poêle. Literally : "who held the strings of the pall"; freely : tcho -were the pall bearers.

4. maître is a title commonly given in courtesy to lawyers and notariés.

Page 31. — I. Le nuage (literally: "cloud"). Translate hère: the group (formed by Miss Morel's friends).

Page 32. — i. et ceux que je vous ferai, and whatyou will hâve to pay me.

2. avait fait au moins deux saisons de trop, had been wortt at least two years too lottg.