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25 Ouf! je suis en nage: Ah! Tamin a perspiration! The expression en nage does not come from the word nager, SWimming, but from the old word age. water, now spelt eau. So étre en age meant formerls !5 5e ïn à sweat, and, when the word age fell into disuse, peop'e till went on saying étre en age, and, understanding no longer the word age, began to write étre en nage.

Tout gris: Quite grey. Tous gris woulA mean all of them grey. |

De loin: At a distance.

Toujours : Meanwhile,.

Tant que: Whilst, as long as.

De vous Ja're illusion: To deceive yourself.

Grâce au ciel! Thank Heaven!

Mais ecache:-vous donc: Do hide yourself.

Elle se retournait : She were to turn round.

Des yeux: With my eyes.

De me voir pleurer comme ça: To see me mourned for like that.

Vous n'étes pas :l'égoñté ! T Should think so! who would not?

Il ne s'agit pas : The question is not.

IL faut nous entendre: We must agree on some plan.

Qu'est-ce qui vient là? for qui est-ce qui vient là? Who is coming there?

Bah ! Never mind!

La prévenir : To prepare her, to warn her.

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1 Ouvre donc: Do open! why don't you open?

Voilà ! Coming! coming!

Pousse: Pushes back, opens.

En fredonnant: Humming.

T'enfermes-tu: Do you shut yourself up?

Qu'est-ce que.je dis donc ? What am I saying? Tu as raison: You are right.

Elle est bien atteinte : She is deeply (grief) stricken. Brisce: Broken down.

Le théatre: The stage.

Et époussette les meubles : And du: che 'urniture. (Il fredonne.) Peuh! peuh! Poh! 50h! (humming).