au pied levé, carelessly; in an offhand way

Page llé« — I. aurait joué, has gambled. The use of the conditional perfect indicates here that the statement is heresay. 2. aurait perdu, has lost. See previous note.

Page 115« — I. paurais dû garder cela pour moi, / ought to have kept that to myself,

2, Quarante-deux mille roubles argent, then about twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars; cf. page 37, note i.

Page 11 ?• — I. tout d'une haleine, without taking breath. 2, d'ici à demain, between now and tomorrow.

Page 118. — I. se laissa aller, sank down, 2, reyint à elle, recovered consciousness.

Page 119. — I. au vol, as it passed.

Page 120. — I. il s'est fait plumer jusqu'aux os, he got severely ** plucked!* ox fleeced,

2. plus qu'il ne peut ; the ne is used idiomatically after a comparative.

Page 121« — I. comme de juste, as was right.

Page 122. — i. vous ne m'en voulez pas, you are not vexed at me,

2, Vous êtes sorti dé page, you are not a child any more*

Page 128. — i. des endroits impossibles, disreputable resorts.