noix de côtelette, the thick end of the côtelette

5. cette fatale santé bourgeoise, this abominable plebeian health.

Page 68. — i. une nixe, un elfe, une willis. Nixe, English "nix,"a kind of fairy, a water sprite. Elfe, English "elf," a Httle sprite, like a fairy. Willis, according to a Bohemian legend, a young girl condemned to rise from her grave and dance ail night.

Pagre 69. — i. ce qui ne vaut pas ... on le chante, a quotation from Beaumarchais (1732-99), a French polemic and dramatic writer. See his Barbier de Séville, Act I, Scène II.

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