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Que YeuX'ta? fVhat could you expect

Page 124. — i . je t'en saurai gré, /shall be grateful toyouyor it.

Page 125« — i. Offenbach: a German composer (1819-1880) who lived at Paris. He wrote a number of light operas.

Page 126* — i. Si, yes^ is used (instead of oui) as an emphatic affirmative after a negative.

Page 127. — I. Que non I Why no!

2, Le vieil homme, "the old Adam;" i.e., her natural disposition.

p. 128-144] NOTES 1 73

Page 128. — i. se battre contre un moulin à -Tent^ fight with a vfind-mill; an allusion to the famous wind-mill fight of Don Quixote, hero of the Spanish satirical romance of the same name. Its author, Cervantes, lived from 1547 to 161 6.

2. YOU8 me promenez dans un amphigouri, you have been leading me about in a labyrinth.

Page 180« — I. ne t'en prends qu'à toi-même, blame only yourself for it.

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