Us font le diable, 'they p'ay the deuce

461. Que voulez- vous? n faut vivre, * What are youto do?* (cf. Ch. II. 1. 4) * Teople must live.* Talleyrand's answer to a petitioner who said, * Il faut vivre,* was, * Je n*en vois pas la nécessité * (= * I see no necessity for it *).

462. faire son trou, 'burrow a hole for himself,' <.^. mal.e himself a position, *a nest.*