maîtresse, as adjective : his splendid beard

3. de toute leur vie, in ail their lives. Note the singular, as 9, 5; also the omission »{ pas, as frequently after si.

4. Voilà de quoi, phrase; that is wherewith, that is enough : that rvill dn.

5. ne fit que — did but — only touched her. The foregoing est-ce que, etc., implies surprise or remonstrance.