se tourmentaient deux mains déliées, hung un

easily two slender hands.

33. Prise dans sa robe de mérinos, elle était tout d'un jet, as she stood there in her merino dress she tuas tall and slender. Lit., 'taken in her merino dress she was quite straight/ 29.— 1. tout d'abord, in the very beginning.

4. je ne sais quoi, something. A fréquent use. 6. je vis celle-ce rougrir, mais fi'anchement, largement, à flot, Isaw her redden mthout the least rtstraint, and detply, the color eoming and going. A flot, lit., ' in • waves,' or, as we say in English, 'pale and rosy by turns/ 9. est-ce bien là la dame, is that the lady. Note the fréquent séparation, as hère, of the ce and là of cela.