séduit; hère: captivated

Pagre 16« — I. dés de pierre = pierres en forme de dés ("stone dice ").

2. lui prit la main à l'anglaise, took het hand in the English loay, that is, without kissing it.

3. à lui mouler les doigts en creux, to grind his fingers into powder.

Page 11. — I. gouaches, water-colors.

2. Lewis (John Frederick), an English painter (1805-1876), who traveled extensively in Europe, and spent ten years in Egypt and in the Orient, painting among other Eastern scènes a water-color, "The Harem."

3. col de cygne, more frequently cou de cygne, the word col being ordinarily employed only in technical terms (col de chemise, "shirt coUar"; col de montagne, "mountain pass," etc.). However the form col is used for euphony and is considered more poetical.

4. Maclise (Daniel), English painter (1811-1870.). Ile painted a few excellent portraits, but his best known pictures are "The meeting of Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo" (46 ft. long) and "The Death of Nelson."

5. corail à facettes, tarai eut with face ts (like a diamond).

Page 18. — I. pour faire opposition, hy way of contras t.

2. Hogarth (William — 1 697-1 764), the famous English caricaturist.

3. favoris . . . taillés en côtelettes, side whiskers . . . trimmed in the shape of mutton chops.

4. coup de soleil; generally " sunstroke " ; hère: tanox sunburn.

5. étoffe vigogne. Vigogne = "Vicuna," a Peruvian sheep; translate: cloth made of vicuiia wool.

6. les Anglais de vaudeville, English people as represented on the comte stage.

7. Hoffmann (1802-1865) and Levassor (1808-1870); the former an Austrian, the latter a French comedian, were especially famous for their talent in imitation and disguise.

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