j'y suis, 'I hâve got them on

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1. 3. d'un ci-devant plumet-blanc, 'of a former Royalist', IVhite WdiS the colour of the Bourbon kings. The allusion is hère to Henry IV, the first of the Bourbons, who, before the battle of Ivry, said to his soldiers: 'Enfants, si les cornettes (standards) vous manquent, ralliezvous à mon panache {plume) blanc, vous le trouverez toujours au chemin de l'honneur et de la gloire'.

1. 5. je n\ii jamais eu de chance, ' I hâve never had any luck ' ; chajtce, in Old Fr. chéance, is from Lat. cadentia, that which falls out fortunately.

1. 7. la fin de la danse. ..'i{ we had not seen the end of the fun you might recoup yourself ; but it is no use running after Linken's knapsacks',

1.26. //é! payse, 'Hallo! fellow-countrywoman' ; /ayj- (country) applied to persons means 'fellow-countryman' and takes the fem. form payse.

1. 33. J'ai use' mon savon depuis thermidor, ' I used up ail my soap as far back as last Thermidor'. Hère a compound tense is used with depuis because the action is no longer going on; cp. p. 7, 1. 37. Thermidor of the year VH (1798 — 1799) l^<?gan on July 19, 1798. See p. 17, 1. 33.

1. 34. comme tu y vas, ' ho w covetous you are', lit. ' how you go at it ',