SCÈNE IX GEORGINA, BOB, POLLY

Polly. (Elle recule frappée de stupeur.) — Oh! pardon, miss! (Elle fait mine de se retirer.) Je reviendrai, miss

Georgina. — Restez, petite niaise que vous êtes... Mister Chester sera bientôt votre maître. Cela vous déplaît-il ?

Bob, toujours à genoux. — Ne dites pas non, Polly! ne 5 dites pas non, ma chère!

Polly. — Hurrah! pour mister Bob! Oh! quel bonheur! j'épouserai William Blackbeer! Que je suis heureuse! {Elle gesticule avec le parapluie qu'elle tient.) Prévenez l'architecte, mister Bob!

10 Bob, se relève brusquement et court à Polly , comme le tigre sur une proie. — Dieu me pardonne ! voici mon parapluie ! Oh! pardon, Georgina, mais comme c'est lui qui m'a ramené ici, je voulais le remercier pour le bonheur qu'il me procure.

15 Georgina à Polly. — Donnez-le moi, Polly. (Montrant le parapluie de mister Fox qui gît sur le parquet. ) Pour celui-ci, Polly, au grenier! (Elle s'adresse tendrement au parapluie que tient alors mister Bob.) Sans toi, tout était perdu. Je jure de t'aimer et de te respecter à l'avenir . . 20 comme une bonne et fidèle épouse doit respecter et chérir tout ce qui appartient à un mari fidèle et tendre ... et, les jours de pluie, dorénavant, Bob, mon orgueil sera d'aller, par les rues, à votre bras, (Elle ouvre le parapluie et donne le bras à Bob.) comme ceci.

25 Bob. — Oui, mais pour aujourd'hui n'abusons pas. (77 ferme le parapluie.) Le vent a tourné de nouveau. Polly. — Il est au nord à présent, mister Bob! Bob. — Tout va bien, nous n'aurons pas de pluie, et voici le soleil!

30 (Précédés de Polly, qui porte avec dégoût le parapluie de mister Fox, Bob et Georgina remontent la scène en se donnant le bras.)

La toile tombe.

The figures in heavy-faced type refer to pages of the text and those in plain type to the lines.

2 De nos jours: the play was written in 1873.

3 L'Eté de la Saint-Martin : Indian Summer. The title is suggested by the return of youthful passion to the heart of old Briqueville. See 38 24. The féminine article appears before Saint-Martin because the complète expression is "la fête de Saint-Martin.'1'' — 5. en scène: well out on the stage. Not contre le mur (4). — 10. à haute voix: simply aloud. — 14. The quotation which follows is from Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires. D'Artagnan, a Gascon, is the hero of the novel. — 16. encore: moreover. Only is understood. — 20. gascon : the inhabitants of Gascony hâve always been noted for their swash-buckler courage. — épouvantés : a participle used in forming a compound tense agrées with a preceding direct object.

4 4. second : second is commonly used when there are only two in the séries. If there are more, deuxième is the proper word for the second. — 7. Par exemple: No, indeed! The négative idea is given by the context. — 8. donniez: subjunctive because of the idea of permission.— 17. vous . . . , te: \ve learn later that Adrienne is not really Mme. Lebreton's nièce. At this point the old lady forgets to use the familiar pronoun required by the pretense, then remembers and corrects herself.

5 6. à la fin: a/ter ail. — II. ayez: il se fait que and similar impersonal expressions are followed by the indicative, unless used negatively, interrogatively, or with an implication of doubt. — 17. suis: the French always use the présent if the action or state spoken of is still continuing. — 22. rattrapé: caught u/>.

6 18. venir passer: venir followed directly by the infinitive means to corne for the purpose of ; venir de •+■ infinitive = to hâve fust; venir

à -+- infinitive = to happen to. — 26. Eh bien quoi: that is, why do you say eh bien? — 27. moi: this répétition of the subject pronoun in the disjunctive form, for the sake of emphasis, is very common. — 28. il me semble : il me semble is commonly followed by the indicative. 7/ semble generally takes the subjunctive.

7 10. j'aie: the subjunctive is used in qualifications of sweeping statements. — 19. redise: subjunctive because of the idea of fteling in amuse. — 25. Qu'est-ce que vous voulez : what can you expect?

8 6. Deuxième: see 44, note. — 12. Tout à fait: Briqueville is resuming the sentence begun in 9. — 24. allez: you see. — 28. venait de: see 6 18, note.

95. les miens: i. e., mes parents, "relatives." — 7. Aussi: aussi beginning a clause means therefore. — II. reçue: see 3 16, note. — 17. sauvais: the imperfect hère dénotes repeated action. I used to escape.

10 5. je ne sais : pas is colloquially omitted in a négative construction with savoir, as with pouvoir, oser, cesser, and several less common verbs. — 9. sauriez: the conditional might hâve been used in the direct address which is hère quoted, and would give a sort of polite indefiniteness to the question. Note that pas is used hère in spite of the custom noted at 10 5. — 11. trouvé à faire : found opportunity to play. — 12. tous les romans : Dumas and his assistants wrote hundreds of volumes, ail of which were published as by Dumas himself , so that the task proposed would be almost the labor of a lifetime. — 16. me passer de: to get along withont. — 19. j'aie: see 7 10, note.

11 17. à nous: see 8 25. — jeune personne: not young person, but rather young lady. — 20. pas mal d'argent : no lack of money.

124. moi: see 627. — 5. le mariage: simply marriage. — 6. de rien du tout: of no importance. — 9. j'aurais vu: note the différence between the French and English constructions. The English would say, u I would pardon him when I had seen his wife." Which is the more accurate construction? — 10. ne s'est pas fait attendre: was not delayed. — 18. j'aie: subjunctive because in an interrogative clause after a verb of mental action (thinking, knowing, etc.). — en vouloir: to hâve a grudge against. — 26. S'il l'aimait: Do you ask if he loved her? — 29. toutes remplies: completely flled. — Notice that toutes is treated as an adjective modifying pages. — 33. nous autres

femmes: the autres is not to be translatée! in English. It emphasizes femmes as distinguished from hommes.

13 2. soyez: see 12 18, note. — 18. Qui ça, quelqu'un: " well, who? somebody . . . " — 22. A qui en avez-vous : to ivhom are you referring? — 25. J'aime à croire: simply I hope.

14 7. de ma part: from me. — 8. l'on: the /' is added for euphonie reasons, and has no effect on the meaning. — 17. veut dire: means. — 18. prenez son parti: take his side. — 19. en scène: toward front of stage. — 23. parent: hère meaning relative, although it is often used with the more restricted meaning of parent. — 28. à quoi bon le recevoir : whafs the use of receiving him ? — je suis décidé : He might hâve said, je me suis décidé.

15 2. puisse: see 12 18, note. — 11. je n'ai pas à vouloir: I hâve no right to wish, i. e., nothing to say in the matter. — 25. soit: so be it, — 28. mon Dieu : the French use such expressions as innocently as we say " gracious ! " or " goodness ! " Indeed, when we corne to analyze most of our English interjections, we find that they hâve the same origin as the more straight-forward expletives of the French.

16 14. pas vrai: subject and copula understood: is it not true? Hère, isn't she? — 22. ça ne fait rien: that makes no différence. — 26. çà: an interjection which merely strengthens the expostulation: but really, now —

17 6. il s'agit de: ifs about — " I came to talk to you about — ".

18 3. en plein soleil: right out in the sun. — 5. Elle a eu tort: she shouldn't hâve done that. — 11. nez à nez: scarcely tiose to nose, with the somewhat ludicrous idea which that phrase would convey in English ; rather face to face. — 1 3. précautions infinies : we learn a few Unes farther on that the wine was very choice. — 29. je te les ferai donner : / will hâve them given to you.

19 6. me faire faire: hâve me make. — 14. de faire subir à mon ameublement: ameublement is subject of subir, but is used with the préposition to distinguish it from the direct object, que. — 23. j'entrai dans: notice that entrer is intransitive in French, although the English équivalent is transitive. — 26. boutique: boutique is generally used with référence to a smaller and poorer establishment than magasin 19 23, hence is hère a term of contempt. — 32. s'ouvrit: the reflexive in French is frequently équivalent to our passive or intransitive.

20 15. Tudieu: goodness! The origin of the word is very évident.

— 22. si: yes. This word is used only as a protest, in answer to a négative. — 25. voyez-vous : compare the "look you, Sir," of old English literature.

21 3. auquel: notice that résister is not transitive, although its English équivalent is. — 14. du monde: not dans le monde. In after a superlative is regularly translated by de. — 22. n'aurait: if the governing expression had been /'/ setnblait instead of il me semblait, the verb would probably hâve been in the subjunctive. See 6 28, note.

22 1. j'aurais écouté: I might hâve listened. — que: and y et. — 2. mon parti était pris: my décision was made. — 13. Bah: not an expression of disgust like the English bah ! but a milder exclamation ; pshaw ! perhaps. — 21. te faire donner les papiers : hâve the papers given you. After faire the complementary infinitive is frequently équivalent to a past participle in English.

23 1. qu'elle est ici: see 5 17, note. — 3. See quinze in vocabulary.

— 6. l'être: "as charming as one can be (it)." — 10. état: social rank. — 16. que: see 22 1, note.

24 22. premier: supply étage, "story." The two lower stories of a French building are called the rez-de-chaussée and the entresol ; then begins the counting by numbers, so that the premier is what we would call the third story.

25 11. tient à: desires to. — 12. n'eût: imperfect subjunctive used as substitute for conditional. — 26. qu'est-ce que vous avez : u<hat is the matter ivith you? — 27. Ce que j'ai ? The matter?

26 6. on a beau avoir : even though one has. — 8. Se mettant la main sur la poitrine : note the expédient to avoid the use of the possessive adjective. We would say, "putting his hand on his breast.''

— 10. bel et bien en train de: well on the way toward. — 12. elle va s'en aller: she is going to leave; a periphrastic future similar to the one which appears in the English translation. — qu'elle parte: let her go. — 21. vous ferez placer: you will hâve ( ) placed. See 22 21.

27 16. on vous recommande: the verb with subject on is often best rendered in English by the passive voice: you are advised. — 19. sans cela : if it were not for that. — 25. aimais: addressed to her husband's elderly uncle, this of course means an entirely différent thing to Adrienne from the meaning suggested to the mind of Briqueville.

28 12. on eût dit: hère, as often, a substjtute for on aurait dit. See 25 12, note. — 18. quelque part: in any place. — 19. à tous les deux: i. e., the existence of both of us. The possessive idea, before expressed by the possessive adjective notre, is hère indicated by the préposition à with an object indicating the possessors. — 26. jeu: action. — 30. quand j'aurais eu fini: the English would say simply, when I had jinished.

30 2. Le moyen de: how is it possible to. — 10. on ne peut plus simple : as simple as can be. — 24. elle l'est : it is (so). See 23 6, note.

31 12. par exemple: hère this phrase h as the meaning of the English équivalent, for example.

32 27. fait: équivalent to importe, an impersonal expression which regularly takes the subjunctive.

33 5. qui commence seulement : who isjust beginning.

34 3. Est-ce qu'il ne vaudrait pas mieux: wouldn't it be better? — 10. ça: as to that. — 13. je veux dire: I mean.

35 6. Dame: an exclamation. See vocabulary. — 8. la: of course referring to tête. — 9. trop: any too well. — 13. tant et tant: simply an emphatic way of saying tant. — 15. nous tirer d'affaire: get us ont of the se râpe.

36 7. vous avez eu tant dit: see 28 30, note. — 12. y tenir: to endure it. — 14. bête comme tout: foolish as anything.

374. je tiens à: / désire greatly. — 13. Si fait! an emphatic affirmative in response to an implied négative. — 15. si violente et si légitime qu'elle pût être : hoivever violent and reasonable it might be.

15-16. votre colère — ne devait pas: it could not be that your anget

would. — 19. s'il n'y aurait pas : si meaning */ cannot be followed by the future or the conditional; but when si means 70/iether, it takes whatever verb-form the sensé requires. - — 23. à tout prendre: on the whole. — 30. très peur: peur possesses enough adjective force to be modified by the adverb très.

38 3. allez : you know. — 9. sur le front : not on the lips. The action shows that he is reconciled to playing merely the "dear uncle" rôle.— il. Bien vrai: " Is it true that you hâve forgiven us?" — 21. Je le devrais : / ought to.

43 Chargée: registered. — i. lever: strictly an infinitive, but hère used as a noun, rising. — dort : is sleeping. Whether or not the French présent tense dénotes continued action, as it does hère, must be determined from the context. — 2. fait: see note to dort, line 1. — 4. prends ton luth et me donne un baiser : when the second of two imperatives has a pronoun object, this takes the conjunctive form and précèdes the verb, instead of following it as would otherwise be the case. — 10. Tiens: imperative of tenir, but hère merely an exclamation, well! — 11. prétendu: iiitended. — 13. quinze jours: see quinze in vocabulary. — 16. sans: in French sans is followed by the infinitive, instead of by the participle as in English. — 19. pas grave: subject, copula, and first part of négative understood. — 21. qui n'en finissent pas : because they are so long. The en is un translatable.

44 1. en: because of it. — 10. serait: conditional because of the suggestion of uncertainty. — 14. comment trouvez-vous: how do you like . . . ? — 27. Palais: the palais de justice; the court-room.

45 3. il vous a poussé un rival : il is only the apparent subject and vous is the indirect object. The word-play in this sentence might be retained in English by such a translation as : while you are pushing forward adverbs, as you say,you hâve a rival pushing himself forward.

— 6. reçue: see 320, note. — 10. elle est manquée: it's a failure.

— 20. mon honorée : supply lettre. Fougasson is hère showing his ignorance, because honorée with this meaning is appropriate only to commercial letters.

46 1. c'est plus fort que moi: it's too much for me. — 11. cours . . . rapporte : the présent with future meaning is very common. — 14. un brave garçon: a good fellow. — Voilà trois mois que je le fais: the French has no présent perfect. Time connected in any way with the présent is indicated by the présent tense. — 18. ça se gagne: thaïs contagious ! — 24. signiez: subjunctive after the impersonal expression il faut que.

47 4. c'est trop fort: See 46 1, note. — mes deux honorées: Supply lettres. — 5. soient: subjunctive because of the idea of émotion in craignant. The affirmative form of this sentence would drop only pas, retaining the ne. — 6. faire charger: see 18 29. — 21. s'envoyer: to send each other.