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Comment ! What!
Eh bien! Well!
Très spirituel: Tery witty
Niaïs : Simple, innocent. In the Middle Agesthey callea fa tenn niais, from the Latin f'alconem 7 ‘cem, the falcon taken in its nest, not having: consequently been flying vet; henes the meaning of silly, simple, awkward, given to that word.
Qu'est-ce que je sais faire ? What is it that I can To? wba: do know how to do?
5 Hein! qu'est ce que cela signifie ? Kh! what does that mean?
Je ne veux rien...: Unfinished sentence for je ne veux rien aire, 1 Will say nothing.
Erifin: Still, after all, with all tant.
N'est-ce pris ? rive you? ;
Je l'en prie: } bescech vou.
Se doutait: Were io -uspect,
Enfin: After all.
Oh! que si. for Oh! si: Oh! yes; yes, certainly ; to be sure. Je dis que si, L'say itis. Si fait! yes, indeed! Si, yes, when answering a negative question.
Voilà: Thore is.
Mon genre! My style!
Qu'elles me plaisent : That I like them.
Ces grands caractères à grands sentiments : These high-flown characters with high-flown feelings,
Ge ae fait peur, for cela me fuit peur : They frighten me.
Cu. Her.
Eh, bien! qu'est ce que ça me fait, à moi? Well, what is she to me?
Je n'en fuis aucun cas: 1 do not think much of them ; 1 do not care much abont them,
Sur l'avant-scène: On the forepart of the stage.
A celle-là. : To her; to that one.
C'est qu'il lui a fait fuire : It is because it made her paint,
Enjunt: Boy.
he n'avait, qu'il n'a pas: Which he had not... which he has not. Notice this passage of Noël from the past tense to the present, Noël speaks as if he were quite sure tant Adrien is living,
Its ont beau le pleurer : I is vain that they mourn for ::
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19 Donc: Therefore. Notice the reasoning of the old scrvant, d who wants little proof to believe in what he wishes for.
CUOON 1 12 Chez les sauvages: Among savages. Sauvages, O4 French en in $ salvages, Savage, comes from the Latin silvaticus, which e the 5 gave in the first French texts salvaticus. It became sauvage
à. by the interchange of al and au, as in cheval, chevaux, do 14 Cela lui ressemble si peu: It is so unlike him.
15 S'est offerte: Has presented itself.
an ? | 19 Me décider : To bring myself.
rien 20 Il avait cinq ans: He was five years old. \ 21 Feu: Heat.
22 Il perd la tête: He loses his right sense. 95 Je n'élance vers : I rush to.
| 26 Pas du tout: Not at all.
: 27 Mon gaillard: My little fellow.
J 2% Une jalousie: Some Venctian blinds.
29 Les bâtons: The rails, the lathes.
30 M'attendait au passage: Was waiting for me to come. Malheureux! Little wretch!
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4 Ah! bah! je n'en finirais pas: Pshaw! there is no end of it. 8 Des méchants sauvages: Poor, wretched, worthless savages. Méchant, wicked, malicious, ill-natured is generally placed after the noun. It often alters that meaning when placed À before the noun, as in un méchañt auteur, à wretched author; une méchante épigramme, a Worthless epigram un méchant diner, à poor dinner.
Des gens de rien: People of no consequence.
Porter la maïn sur: To lay hands on.
10 Ca ve se peut pas, cela ne se peut pas : That cannot be. 16 Aussi: Consequently, therefore.
12 Saisi: Struck, startled, astonished.
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17 Æt qu'il va me crier: And that he is going to shout to me. vhe | 19 Me voilà! ‘or me voici: Here Lam. FPoici relates to what is eto near: to what à faroff. For voici is for vois ici, see tant her: ad voilà is fe: vois Là, see there. But voilà is con-
stats used for both, whilst voici is almost, only used in opposition to voilà,
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— Sa casquette : His cap.
926 Qu'as-tu donc? Pray, what is the matter with you? 27 Attendais: Expected.
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1 Reviens à toi: Come to yourself.
3 Bien: Indecd, really.
4 Mon enfant: My boy.
6 Saisissement : Shock.
10 À dû arriver: Must have arrived.
11 Depuis qu'on n'attend plus rien: Since we expected nothing more.
12 On n'envoic plus chercher: We no longer send for.
15 Celles-la: Those.
15 Quand elles veulent: Anyhow; literally, when they please.
20 La malheureuse: The unhappy one.
20 Coup de foudre: Thunderbolt. Foudre or tonnerre, thunder'; coup de foudre, clap of thunder, thunderbolt: éclair, lightning. Tonnerre is more the report of thunder; un tonnerre d'applaudissements, deafening applause: whilst foudre is the poetical term.
91 Oh! Seigneur ! On! dear!
24 Est-ce que j'y étais préparé, moi? And I, was I prepared for it ?
95 J'y pense: I am thinking.
27 Personne: No one, nobody.
28 A4 ma rencontre: To meet me.
31 Tout éperdu: Quite distracted,
31 J'ai de la tête: Tam level-headead,
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2 Ah! c'est que, vois-tu, elles n'ont pas: Ah! the fact is, vou know, they have not.
5 Brave: Good, Un brave homme, à good man; wxn homme brave or une femme brave, à brave man or Woman: une brave femme, a shnple, good-natured Woman.
13 Al voila: Now I'am.
14 Je lui at appris: T'informeda her of,
15 Sans connaissance: Senseless,
16 Tout doucement: Very quietly.
18 Qu'il metarde: How I long,
20 T'ais-toi, donc: Do be silent,
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25 Qu'il y a longtemps: What a long time there is. 28 Elle l'est encore: She is still so.
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5 Toujours: Still.
7 Vat-elle être contente! Won't she be pleased!
Celle-là : She, that one.
9 Genre: Kind.
9 Oh! mon Dieu! Oh, dear!
10 Qu'est-ce que je vais faire de mes femmes ? What shall I do with my women?
11 Leur apprendre: To inform them.
12 Je m'y perds: I am lost.
12 Je n'y suis plus : T do not understand, I am in the dark.
13 Trouble : Disturbance.
16 Chargeais : Requeste:.
17 Chut! Hush!
21 Silence donc! Do Ue silent!
23 Madame: Mistress.
29 On n'entre plus dans cette chambre: That room is shut up.
32 Le verrou: The bolt, from the Latin veruculum, a bolt, became first verrouil, as fœnuculum has become /enouil, fennel. Later on verrouil, Still kept in verrouiller, to bolt, becan:e verrou, as genov'l became genou, the nec, though we say s'agenouiller, to kneel down.
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1 Cela l'inquiéterait : That would disturb her, — Par le vantail de droite de la porte: By the right leaf of the folding-door.
6 Laissons-la : We must let her,
8 Entr'ouvrant: Half-opening.
10 De ça, for c'e cela: By that.
11 À fond: Thoroughly.
11 Zlen a bon besoin: It is in great want of it. 12 Madame veut-olle : Do you wish?
12 Je dérange : 1 disturb, put aside.
15 Mon livre de messe: My pruyer-book; literally, my mass-book,
.17 Tout en maintenant: Whilst holding.
20 Qui l'attend: Whois Waiting for it, 23 Oui, merci! Yes, thank you! From the Old French mercier, to thank,
