un littérateur à tous crins, a long-haired literary man

Page 42. — i. passe encore, well and good.

Page 48* — i. un intérieur harmonieux, a pleasant home.

Page 44* — i. grand'chose, much. The final e of the feminine form of the adjective grande -e, is omitted in some compounds. This usage is a relic from the Latin, in which the adjective grandis had but one form for the masculine and the feminine.

2. de son chef, in her own name; in her independent for tune.

3. Tsarskoé-Sélo is a summer residence for people of Saint Petersburg.