faire la nique, familiar, to spite

Leur macaroni n'avait pas dû passer tout seul. Literally: Their macaroni must not hâve gone down of itself, i. e. without help. Render by: **Their brei^fast must hâve stuck in their throats'^ or by: "they can hardly hâve relished their breakfast."

Note that the form avait dû can not be exactly rendered into English, because there is now no English past participle corresponding to dû, This verb (detxnr) of ten corresponds to English **cannot but". Ex.: Vous avez dû le voir^^ *you cannot but hâve seen if, or *you must hâve seen it. The proper use of this verb oonstitutes one of the peculiar diffîculties the English speaking student meets in the study of French.

58. — 19. Vair de Sidi Brahim, the tune of S. B., a popular song.

20. Franc f standing before its noun, has retained very nearly its original Teutonic meaning of free, noble.

59.— 1. ,.,le mot, the phrase, the form, which their talk culminated in. . . Cf. page 87 line 6.