de ce pas, directly

14. faire baisser la rente, to make stocks drop. 9. — 8. je tins bon, I held ont.

9. il me prit un éblouissement si violent, I became so dizzy. Notice the impersonal use of the verb.

14. Bourget, village 9 miles from Paris, now well known for the engagements that took place there during the Franco-Prussian war (October 28-30 and December 21, 1870).

18. avoir l'air d'une poule mouillée, so as not to seem like a wet blanket; lit. a wet hen. Notice the pun.

19. pour le coup, j'étais rendu, this time I was exhausted, done up.

11.-— 20. c'est à faire dresser les plumes sur la tête. The common saying is faire dresser les cheveux sur la tite^ to make your hair stand on end.

12. — 25. comme qui dirait un coup d'éventail, as one would say, a tap with her fan.

13. — 4. Marais, a quarter in the eastern part of Paris, now Quartier du Temple.

6. Vous êtes de l'invasion, you were born at the time of the invasion. Référence to the foreign invasion of 1814.

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8. Fiez-vouB à moi, et laiBsez-vons faire, trust to me and let me do what is best for you.