maréchal des logis, quartermaster (of cavalry

26. elle vivante, during her life ; lit. she living — a kind of ablative absolute.

30. depensait-il. When the sentence begins with an adverb, the subject and verb are frequently inverted.

32. se mettre au vert, to live in the country. The expression is properly applied to an animal turned out to grass.

ÎO.— 9. nous nous sommes mis d'accord, we agreed.

11. — 6. une enchère de cinquante francs avait suffi. The priée had been put at 600,000 francs (p. 2, 1. 1), and a bid of 50 francs additional had secured the property.

14. on était déjà debout dans l'assistance, those présent had already risen (to go).

12. — 19. il ne s'amusait guère, je vous en réponds, he didn't hâve a very lively Urne, I assure you.

13. — 2. The Parc Monceau is in one of the wealthiest quarters of Paris.

14. — 12. Bois (de Boulogne), a large and magnificent park just outside the city walls.

13. groom, in French, is a boy in attendance on a rider. Translate page. See p. 72, lines 17-21.

20. dame, zoundsl for par notre dame. Compare the English interjection "niarry." ça n'est pas d'une gaieté folle, les mercredis, ihey are not excessively lively, the réceptions (given on Wednesdays).

32. elle n'est pas décolletée à cheval, she doesn't wear lownecked dresses on horseback.