l'installe à Son bureau, ‘sets him at his desk
16. Vous n'auriez Pas un canif? ‘You do not happen to have a penknife ?
18. Si.... voilà, ‘Yes, here you are.’ 19. touten taillant, ‘(talking) as he mends.’ Je vais... poupée, ‘TI tie Your finger up for you.’ Poupée is a common expression for a ‘tied-up finger.’ voilà ce que c’est, ‘there it is,” ‘you are all right now.’ 30. 1. Mais... c’est que, ‘But... the fact is.’ 7. C'est juste! ‘That's so !, ‘You are right.” 10. Y êtes-vous ?
Pé. This method of producing comic effect, viz., by the repetition of ridiculous situations, is, a8 already noted, one Labicho often resorts to.
Norss.
Ça y est ! ‘It's all right !
Enfin, ‘Well.’
Noël et Chapsal. Noël (755-1841) and Chapsal (1788- 1858) weré the authors of a French Grammar published first in 1823, and of which there were more than sixty editions published in succeeding years.
consente. Compare p. 10, 1. 27.
le cours, ‘the promenade,’ ‘the boulevard,’ ‘the avenue.’
à la Toussaint, ‘on All-Saints’ day.” The first of November. The article /a is used because therc is an ellipsis of the word fée. So also in many other examples, as : la Noël, la Saint-Jean, etc.
mais non ! ça ne me va pas ! ‘ no indeed ! that does not suit me !’
de vous la voir agréer, ‘to see you accept it with favour.
que j'ai... .sondage, ‘to whom I have entrusted a new excavation. ?
un mauvais sujet, ‘a person of bad habits,’ ‘a bad lot.’ ‘Sujet se dit d’une personne, par rapport à sa capacité, à ses talents, ou à ses mœurs.’ —Dict. :{e l’Académie.
commun, ‘ plain-looking,’ ‘ vulgar-looking.
il lui manque trois dents, ‘he has three teeth lacking,’ ‘he has lost three teeth.” Note that in impersonal constructions the verb agrees with the representative subject (4) instead of with the real subject.
par exemple ! ‘dear me !’, ‘ you don’t say 80 !”
remise, ‘handed to him.’
Pauvre garçon ! ‘ Poor fellow !
Comment, doux! ‘Wht, you say sweet!’ Note in reading the French phrase that the inflection of the voice is different from what it would be in reading the English phrase. It falls, or at least remains level, in the word, or words, following comment.
ne te conviendrait pas! ‘would not suit you!” Of course, he does not give her a chance to express an opinion.
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que diable! ‘what the deuce (next) !”, ‘confound it !’. ‘the deucetakeit!” :
dois-je, ‘am I to?”, ‘shall 1?’
Passer par-dessus, ‘ io overlook.’
Je m'y attendais, ‘I was expecting it.’
un jour, ‘ some day.’ -
si... bachelier, ‘if, to suppose what seems impossible, Edmund should succeed in passing his examination as bachelor,’ f'he degree of bachelier, in France, is obtâined at the close of one’s career in the lycée, or secondary school, and admits one to a course in what corresponds to the university with us. The subsequent degrees, in Arts, are the licence aud the doctorat.
Mais... adresser, ‘ But I have another request to make of you.’ °
Faites done ! ‘All right !’
Je m'engage, ‘I pledge myself.’
Il a été prendre les objets sur, ‘ He bas gone and taken the things from.’
Allons !.... terminée, ‘Well, that’s one piece of business over !”
Je crois bien, ‘I should think 80. That is, ‘if I am crying it is with good reason’ ; spoken in reply to tu pleures in her father s speech.
grand. distingué, spirituel, ‘tall, elegent, clever.’
pauvre petite, ‘ poor girl.’
Ça.... plaisir, ‘That does not seem to please you much.’
S1.... si, ‘Oh yes, it does” See p. 29, L 18.
A la bonne heure ! ‘All right !
Pour arroser la elasse agricole, ‘To moisten (‘wet the whistle of?) the farmers.
Voilà! ‘Here I am !”
les gens de la maison, ‘the servants.’
lui prenant, ‘taking from him.’
petite has often the sense of ‘dear’ rather than : littie.’
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Norss.
1 n'y a pas à hésiter. He can no longer hesitate betweèn
his daughter’s happiness and ñis ambition ; and so he prepares to resign his position of honour.
Arpajonais, ‘ Men of Arpajon? (humorously pompous).
Par exemple ! ‘ Indeed !”, ‘Oh no, you don't !
souvent femme varie, ‘woman is fickle.” An allusion to the couplet written by Francis I. on a pane of glass in his castle at Chambord :
Souvent femme varie, Bien fol est qui s'y fle.
Celle... habiter, ‘The one that you are going to live in.
À aucun prix, ‘On no consideration.’
chère petite! ‘ You dear girl !’
C'est que... deux mois, ‘ But, you see... two months.’
Que... voulu, ‘How good you are to have been so kind as to.” Compare voulez-vous bien le faire ?, ‘will you be s0 kind as to do it?’
Comme ça....eonnaître, ‘In that way we «hall know it” This is all very cleverly done by Caboussat, who wishes to keep his ignorance a secret.
Ce n’est que cela ! ‘Is that all it is !”
il suf:\ra de quelques leçons, ‘a few lessons will suffice.’
Un élève de plus ! ‘Another pupil.’
science. In French the word means ‘ knowledge” as well as ‘science.’
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