Y sommes-nous, are we ail ready at last
5. Léonida, vivement ; she makes her bid without having heard ail the others pass ; as it is, she gains nothing, although she has a hand worth forty points.
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6. Vingt-et-un . . ; twcnty-one and ace, which counts ton iiioru in houillotU, woiikl he consitlered a safe hand to bid on.
7. Je ne respirais pas, a rather old-fashioned use of this verb ; he means he was not anxious to take that trick.
S. C'est de la carotte, t/utt's nii^gardly ; jouer de la carotte mcans to venture only the smallest stakes.
Page 10. — I. Embêtant is a colloquial synonym of ennuyeux.
2. A gagné; in stage directions, ^'•tz^'-;/tr dénotes a change of i)osition to a particular spot.
3. Grand Dieu, goot/ Jleavens! An exclamation of which the original force has wholly disappeared.
4. Personne . . ; personne and rien are négative without ne in elliptical phrases, the ne being understood with the verb. — Si is used instead of oui in stating a contradiction.
5. A qui à parler, whose turn to bid? Compare page 9, line 31 ; either de or à may connect être with an infinitive, but, properly, de expresses duty, while à signifies one's turn.
Paçe 11. — I. Grignon, a hamlet eight miles west of Versailles, is well-known for its model farm and school of agriculture, established in 1827.
2. Fichu une gifie, fetched kim a clip. This is one form of the past participle ol ficher, which is a rather vulgar word meaning " to give roughly "; gijle, coming from the Old High German Kiever, meaning "jaw," was originally " cheek,'" but is now a popular word meaning "slap on the face."
3. Saprelotte, another euphemistic exclamation, hère dénotes impatience or disgust, Confound it!
4. Haut, aloud, not in a loud tonc. — C'est pas is for ce n'est pas.
5. Toutefois is ungrammatical for toutes les fois, i. e., wlietiever.
6. Chance, luck, hère in the sensé of good luck ; from the Latin cadens, through cadentia, something which falls to one.
7. Elle s'aura enrhumée, she must liave caught cold. Aura is incorrect French for sera. The future and conditional forms of a veib are often used in an hypothetical sensé, or as a softened assertion.
