qui n'entend pas raillerie, who will stand no nonsense

5. avoir la question, be put to the rack. The name for the rack itself, the instrument of torture, is la gêne ; see a few lines farther on.

Page 16« — I. of&ce y pantry ; (feminine in this sense).

2. blond très ardent, very bright auburn, euphemism for roux, " red " or " carroty."

3. enfoncés, drawn in, as in the case of very old people who have lost all their teeth.