la Cité, the City ; the business part of London

8. Régent' s Street ; the fashionable shopping district in London.

Page 2. — I. Vergetées de couleurs de la coupe-rose = full of pimples ; literally: "streaked with the colors of blotches."

2. pétri de crème et de fraises, with a compte xion like strawberries and cream (pétrir = ta Ânead).

3. rappelant les types affectionnés par les keepsakes. /Ceepsake; this name is applied to certain annual publications, handsomely bound, containing prose taies and poems, and illustrated with plates. They were formerly very popular in England, but are now no longer issued. Thus the sentence of the text could be translated : " reminding one of the illustrations commonly found in Keepsakes."

4. " Vedi Napoli e poi mori" = See Naples and then die. Hère is also a play on words, there being near Naples a village by the name of Mori.

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5. œillades à la don Juan =1 glane es à la don Juan, Don Juan is the type of a f rivolous lover.

6. impropriété. The author hère uses an expression which the English ladies in question would probably hâve employed; the correct French term would be inconvenance,

7. Van Dyck, a Flemish painter (i 599-1 641). Van Dyck beard = "a pointed beard."

8. Rubens, the greatest Flemish painter (i 577-1640). In ail his portraits, painted by himself, he has beautiful long curly hair.

9. Paul Véronèse ; real name Paolo Cagliari, but best known as Paolo Veronese; an Italian painter of great famé, born at Verona 1532, died there 1588. — " cheveux coupés en brosse" = hair eut à la Pompadour ; literally: "like a brush."

Page 3. — I. pointe; hère: how.

2. gens des troisièmes places = third class passengers. Cf. page I, note 3.