garde, nurse

3. deux manières de petits-maîtres fort lestes, two very smart-looking men of fashion, (as I took them to be). The petits-maitres were then what the incroyables were under the Directoire, the petits-creves under the second empire, the gommeux and pschutteux in our day. English

"swells; " American "dudes."

4. il y eût mis beaucoup du sien, it had been in great part his own doings.

Page 108. — I. chienne, vile; prefixed to other words, as "dog" in English, to denote worthlessness : " dog-cheap," " dog-Latin." de, expletive, used before a noun preceded by a qualifying adjective or noun, forms a remarkable idiom, used only in familiar style.

2. gaxme^ furnished (in a lodging house). See page 45, note i.

Page 109. — I. soit que . . . soit que, either because . , . or,