bureatt de placement, intelligence office

Pa§^ 60. — I. sur le pavé, out of work; lit, on the street, grison, spy ; formerly a sort of lackey dressed, in gray, employed in some secret work.

2. Etea-VOUS bien placés ? for vous n^ êtes pas plutôt placés que; a figure of rhetoric used by the speaker who expects no answer to his question.

3. N'ai-je pas bien fait les choses, DidnU I behave well towards you ? havenU I repaid you for your trouble ?

Page 51 • — I. commis {aux aides ^ understood), formerly collector of duties on certain kinds of goods. They were employed by the fermiers des impôts or traitants, farmers of the revenue. " Un commis engraissé des malheurs de la France." — Boileau, Epttre v. (Ordinarily, commis = clerk.)

2. qu'on en use de la sorte avec moi, to be treated in that way,

3. Torbellino, Spanish for Tourbillon, whirlwind; figur., a boisterous person.

Page 52. — i. nous nous en tenons à, we rest satisfied with,