tiré à quatre épingles, ver y carefully dressed

Page 26. — 1. un ci-devant muscadin, like a dandy of years gone by. 2. une piécette blanche, a Hiver pièce.

3. Titus, a Roman emperor and the son of Vespasian, reigned from 79 to 81. He loved his people and used to say : "I hâve lost this day " (diem perdidi), when the day had passed off without his having had the chance to do some good to some one.