fort mal avec, on very bad terms with

26. les arbres du mail, the trees of the mail. Mail cornes from malleus, l a hammer/ and it has given its name to an open space where a game similar to croquet was played. Hence English mail (Pall-Mall, and St. James' Mail in London). It is hère = * the public promenade.'

33. de n'y laisser entrer âme qui vive, to Ut no living soûl enter there.

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1 3.-34. qu'on entretint ni qu'on réparât rien, that they

8hould either keep up or repair anything.

14. — 2. à Pâques OU â la Trinité, al Easter or on Trinity Sunday. A French proverb, meaning " at an uncertain date," referring to the practice of the French kings of the XlIIth and XlVth centuries, of borrowing money to be returned " à Pâques ou à la Trinité," which promise was seldom regarded.

15. aux magnifiques enfantillages des séductions de la nuit, to the grand chUd-fancies of the charming nighL

20. avec ses tours en poivrière, mth Us pepper-box towers; i. e., ' its towers like sentry boxes/ from their forai.