Ufaut bien se dire cela. — It must be admitted

6. Tâchons d*enlever cette affaire-là aujourd'hui f tout de suite, — Let us try to carry that point to-day, immediately. Enlever is hère used in a sensé akin to its xxdlitary meaning ; as, enlever un vaisseau, to carry a ship bv boarding.

6. L'art lui-même vous fera défaut. — Art îtself will abandon you.

7. Vous avez beau vous fâcher, — You need not get angry. For the explanation of beau used in the sensé of ** in Tain, see Note 11 to La Maison de Penarvan.

8. Au Havre, — Havre literalbr means haven, harbor ; hence the use of the article in Le Havre, du Uavre, au Havre. Its ancient name was Le Havre de Grâce, from a small chapel of Notre Dame de Grâce, which stood on its site. — Talents, a few unes lower, means accomplishments, It has always this meaning in the plural, unless used emptieally for men of talent.

9. La Vigie. — Literally, "the look>out;" hère it is the name of a newspaper.

10. Cela m*a saisie. — That startled me. The same word occurs agaîn, in nearl;^ the same sensé, near the end of Scène VU. ; and a few Hnes farther, in the beginning of the next scène, the noun saisissement is used in the sensé of shock,

11. Oh! que si.-^O, yes it is. Si is a much more emphatic affirmative than oui. — See Note 48 to Les Petits Oiseaux. — In Scène X. Noël iays, " Si fait," yes indeed.

12. Il perd la tête, — He becomes excited — loses ail présence of mind.

13. Je suis en nage. — I am ail in a perspiration. The expression être en nage is a corrupted form of être en aae, and has nothing to do with nager, to swim. Age, like the Provençal aiguë, is merely a more ancient form of the word eau, nearer in form to the Latin primitive tiqua: so that être en nage is etymologically the same as être et», eau.

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14. Vous n*Hes pas dégouié, — Always used ironically for, You are not hard to please ; you are not too particular.

15. EUe est bien atteinte, ce chagnn Va brisée, -^li was a heaTy blow; this sorrow bas shattered her.

16. Je suis tout bouleversé, rC est-ce pas f Tai la figuré tout à Venvers t

— I am ail unsettled — am I not ? I look ail out of sorts. ' A Venvers means literally inside out, or upside down.

17. Quinze Jours, -^ A fortnight. -^ See Note 20 to La Bataille de Dames,

18. Je ne nCy reconnais plus, I don't know where I am any more.

— Études, a few Unes below, means drawings.

19. Songe qu*ily va de la vie de maman, — Think or remember that mother's life dépends upon it.

20. Sortir ma joie, — ^Express my joy. Sortir is now seldom used in this itsprimitiye signification, to cause to gush forth.

21. Tu rCen veux point à Mathilde, n'est-ce pas f — You are not Texed with Mathilde — are you ?

22. Je n'y tenais plus, ~- 1 could not stand 4t any longer ; or, I could not hold out any longer.

23. Cela m'a monté la tête. — That excited me — turned my head.

24. N'allez-vous pas faire des façons avec celui-là! — Are you going to stand upon ceremony with him ?

25. Vous en devinez plus quHl n'y en a, vous me faites perdre la tête. —You guess more (make more of it) than there is ; you cirive me mad.

26. Mon Dieu, — This ever-recurring exclamation has already been spoken of in Note 8 to La Maison de Penarvan, It has by no means the force which it would seem to hâve if literally translated into English. Heavens! or even Goodness! or any such exclamation may be used to render it. The English language is not free from such expletives ; and the innocent O, dearl or Dear me! is etyraologically very nearly allied to Mon Dieu ! — although it may be almost universally uttered without recalling any idea of its origin or primitive signification.

Hemabk. — Throughont this play no diœresis is placed over the name Noël whenever it is printed in capitals. This is the gênerai, though not universal, usage. Many grammarians object to the use of the diœresis over the e in Noël, poème, poëte, which they write Noël, poème, poète.

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