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La joie fait peur : Joy may frighten too great à joy may kill.
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Au fond : At the back ; in the background.
A deux battants : Folding. - Le théatre : The stage.
Au premier plan: At the front of the stage, in the foreground, Le devant : The forepart.
A dossee au mur : Placed against the wall. Dos, back.
Chaise longue: Couch.
Pouf}: Puff, ottoman seat.
Guipure: Lace.
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Je frissonnais : I shuddered; I used to tremble. Frisson, shiver, shudder.,
Aujourd'hui: To-day,now. This word is composed of au jour de hui. Kormerly the French said merely hui, to-day, from the Latin hoc die; but the word seeming no doubt too short, they added au jour. Thus aujourd'hui means literally the day of to-day. The French are not even satisfied with this, and you may sometimes hear au jour d'aujourd'hui. A countryman is said to have made use of the words, au jour du jour d'aujourd'hui.
Que m'importent: What are to me; What matter to me. Z/
importe, it matters.
Plus méme : Even no more.
Mat : Mast, from the Gernian.
Chut! Hush!
Elle aussi: She also, the neighbour.
Bas : In à whisper, On: One, they, people ; on croit, it is believed.
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18 Ne parlez jamais de cela ici: Never speak of that hcre. Ae comes from the Latin non, Old French nen, then ne. The negations made out of ne arc--ne pas (not a Stop), not; ne point (not a point), not at all; ne plus, no more; ne jamais, (not ever), never; ne rien (not à thing; see note, p. #, 1. 24), nothing ; ne personne (not à person), nobody ; ne goutte, with only voir and entendre (not à drop), not at all ; ne nullement, or ne aucunement, by no means ; ne quère, SCarcely ; ne nulle part, nowherc.
19 Fait pleurer mrman: AtfHicts mamma; brings tears to mamma’s Cycs.
23 Apres le succès: When he had suceecded in the world: after making himself à position.
28 Bien: Truly, really.
%) Son air fier : His noble countenance.
31 Z lui ferait mal: It would pain her.
32 Toujours: Still
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— Absorbée: Pensive; deep in thought.
— Entrant du fond: Coming in by the back of the stage.
10 Le maître maçon: The head-mason, the builder.
11 À madamc : To the mistress.
4 Plan: Draught, plan.
15 Grange: Barn, from the Latin granea, à place for tnrashing wheat. It gave first grania, then granja, and lastly grange.
21 Toujours ça de gagné: So much gained atallevents. Toujours, at all events.
22 Elle ne voudra pas : She will not consent.
23 Serre: À greenhouse ; from serrer, to put under lock and key : hence serrure, lock.
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2 In'y a que: There is only, it is only.
2 Me faire plaisir : To do me à pleasure. Plaisir, the old French verb plaisir, to please, used as a noun.
3 L'entraîner : Persuade her, induce her.
3 Il faut bien se dire cela: That is quite certain. 4 Enlever : To complete, to finish up.
6 Si.je priais : If I were to ask.
10 Bah! Pshaw!
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13 Quest-ce donc: Pray what is the matter? Donc, then, used empbhatically. .
15 C’est Noël qui: Here is Noël who.
16 Veut absolument: Insists.
18 Il y a trois mois : Three months ago.
22 F'aire monter: To bring up. :
23 Ça for cela: That.
24 Qui est descendu en scène: Who has come to the front of the stage.
24 Rien: Nothing, it will cost nothing. Zeien, from the Latin rem, a thing, was first a noun with that meaning ; thus they said une belle rien, a fine thing. The habit of using it with ne, as Jjene sais rien, I know nothing, gave it the sense of nothing, as je l'ai eu pour rien, I had it for nothing. With that meaning it is now used as à noun, as in this line of Lafontaine :—
“Un souftle, un ombre, un rien, tout lui donnait la fièvre.”
2% Qu'on pourra même adapter: That it will be even possisie ‘o adjoin.
30 Que cela me distraira: That it will divert me, amuse me.
30 Æh! mon Dieu! Oh, dear ! The words mon Dieu were first used as a prayer, and so may be used now. But they were soon used as an exclamation in sudden émotions. Now, as an exclamation, they are current words of conversation, and have, as such, lost all meaning, just as the word dear! its equivalent in English, has lost its first meaning in becoming an exclamation,
33 Elle a gagné : She has reached, she has gone to.
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3 Sc flétrissent: Are fading.
4 Haut: Loud,
Il faut garder: We must keep.
8 À raison: Is right.
1 C’est de la bonne malice : This is a good ruse, +)
Démon: Angel, spirit,
Il faut que tu donnes ton avis : You must give your opinion, Avis is from the Old French vis, opinion, which was generally used with à, as in à m'est à vis, it is my opinion; later on the two words were contracted into one,
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Vous reviendrez chez lui: You will return to his house.
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Après trois mois de deuil: After three months mourning Deuil, formerly deul, is formed of the Old French verb doloir, to feel pain.
Eh! monsieur: Well! sir.
ÿ Porter son deuil: To mourn for him; literally, to wear mourn-
ing for him.
Les convenances : Propriety.
Eh! Ah!
De fille: As a daughter, Mais enfin: But after all, still.
De vous savoir en proie : To know you to be a prey. Votre pére a raison: Your father is right.
Vous fera défaut: Will fail you, Eh bien! Well!
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Vous engagent: Are à pledge for you, Eh! qu'importent: Ah! what matters,
5 Je Lui demande: T ask of it.
7 hessemblant : True, faithful,.
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Ce cher portrait! Ce sera: This dear portrait! IL will be. The first ce is à demonstrative adjective, whilst the second is à pronoun.
Disputer à la mort : To be coutcading with death for.
Elle s'accoude : She rests her celbows,
Courir le monde: To travel, to travel about the world,
Comment voyage-t on: How can one travel,
1 vous regarder vivre: In sceing you live.
éclat: Renown,
Pous-méême pour nous: Alone for us,
Secourir : To «ia, to help.
Modeste et fier: Humble, but enviable,
C'est que moi je ne suis pas : L'inyself am not,
Lui: He.
D'amour, d'un veritable amour: With love, with truc love,
Se relève: Starts up,
Vous avez beau: IX is in vain.
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3 Ce besoin: That desire. Le besoin des richesses, the wish for riches.
3 Porter dignement: Worthily bearing.
6 Dites-vous ? You say?
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loir, 7 C'est là: That is.
8 Séduite: Fascinated, attracted.
9 Voilà ce que vous tenez à me faire comprendre: That is what urh- you wish me to understand. Tenir à means also, to cling to —je tiens à ce portrait ; to be fond of, je tiens à ce cheval ; to insist on, je tiens à son départ immédiat; to wish greatly for, je tiens à ce voyage; to belong, tout ce qui tient à cette entreprise; to be close to, Le jardin tient à la maison ; to be owing to, à quoi cela tient-ùl ? to depend upon, à tient à lui L de me faire accorder cette faveur ; to affect deeply, cela Lui tient au cœur.
10 N'est-ce pas ? Do you not, 10 Soit: Very well, agreed ; making a concession. 11 J'aime mieux: I prefer.
É 17 Donc: Pray.
L 20 Je pleure: I mourn for, 22 Que je vous aimais déjà: When I loved you already. 23 Vous ne vous fâchiez pas de: You were not offended at. 25 J'en riais : 1 made fun of it.
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1 be | 27 Me désespérer: Drive me to despair. as 28 Vous voulez bien: You yourself wish; you also wish, do you not?
29 Ce qu'il a de: What there is.
31 Quand je pleure: When I am mourning, ; 3 C'est me «ire: It is as if saying to me, 33 Sans souvenir: Without memory.
33 Sans pudeur : Without modesty.
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Mais: Why.
É 1 Une misérable: A worthless being, a wretch,
L 2 Je n'ai plus de valeur que par: My only worth is now only in, 5 L'évoquer : To call him up, to recall him,
ô Le pleurer : To mourn him,
‘ 8 Vous osez venir me dire: You aure come and say to me,
Yÿ Æt vous vous étonnez: And you wonder,
10 Ze m'indigne: 1 um indignant,
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11 Je n'étonne: I wonder.
12 Il vient ici compter: He comes here counting.
13 Se tarir: To cease flowing.
14 Zlest capable d'espérer: It is possible for him to hope. LU lose réver : He dares think, he dares imagine,
16 Bien: Surely, really.
17 Oh! mon Dieu! Oh! dear!
19 De grâce : Pray. à
22 M'est témoin: 1s witness to me.
25 Qu'on me sauve : To be saved.
2% Que l’on s'intéresse à moi: That any once should interest himself in me,
— Un plumeau à la main: A feather-broom in his hand,
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1 Par pitié! For pity's sake ! ÿ 1 Descendant la scène : Coming down the stage ; in front of the t public, .
2 Faut-il donc: Must I then? il 3 C'est de la démence: It is madness; it is insanity. 4 4 Ælle l'emploie : She uses it,
12 Qu'est-ce que cela vous fait ? What is that to you ? } 12 Tl'enez, mon cher enfant : Pray, my good friend, 14 Bien à vous: Right of you,
16 Ænsuite: Then, besides,
17 Qui ne vous conviént pas: Who does not suit you,
17 Fils unique: The only son.
18 Armateur: Shipowner; literally he who arms the vessel, 21 Qui aura de l'esprit: Who will be clever. L 23 Von plus: Neither,
2% Je m'y connais : 1 know something about it,
24 Celle-là: She; that one.
27 Ilyen a tant d'autres : There are so many others,
27 Vous obstiner à celle qui ne veut pas de vous: Be obstinate | with her who will not accept you.
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8 C'est ça: There is; that is.
9 LA vViGiIE: A periodical paper, supposed to appear at Havre. V'igie, look-out man.
10 Ælle sera: She wili be (future tense).
1 Zllui faut: He wants.
12 Tout de suite: At once; ready grown; ready made.
12 Il ne se doute pas : He does not suspect.
14 Elle a déjà beaucoup d'esprit: She is already clever.
15 Gaie: Lively, cheerful.
16 Celle-là: She, that one.
17 Elle ne lui dirait pas @es sottises : She would not abuse him.
19 On a bien raison de dire: People are right to say.
20 ZI l'est: It is so.
2% Distraire : To divert, to amuse.
29 Me voila seul : I am alone.
30 Vous pouvez compter : You may rely.
32 De la famille: One of the family.
33 11y a: There are.
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1 J'en suis: I am one.
3 Qu'ilest bête: What an idiot! how stupid!
4 En frère: As a brother.
6 Mais, c'est tout ce que je demande: Why, this is all I want.
7 Faites que: Arrange so that.
8 Pauvre garçon: Poor fellow, Garçon, boy, means also « fellow, as un bon garçon, a good fellow ; as well as a waiter, a journeyman, «a porter; garçon d'honneur, bridegroom.
9 Zl faut être juste: We must be just,
10 Toute petite: Quite young.
11 Zlen serait fou: He would be mad after her.
11 Zl faudra bien qu'il la regarde: He will be bound to look at her.
14 Décourageant ! Disheartening !
15 Qu'est-ce que vous faites donc? Pray, What are you doing?
18 Ca été plus fort que moi, for cela a été: It was too much for me, I could not help it,
18 T'u sais bien: You know, surely you know.
20 /ly a deux ans: TWo years ago,
91 Dans la grande pelouse là-bas: On the great lawn yonder, Pelouse, lawn, from the Latin pilosus, hairy,
A1 Eh bien? Well,
