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Recueilli: Received, taken me.
A me rétablir : In recovering.
A sa façon: In her own way, in a peculiar style of her owu, (a été long! for cela « été Long! That took a long tie,
8 On l'a retrouvé: It has been found,
8 Mon voleur : The one Who robbed me.
9 Mélée: Scuthle, fight.
11 C’est bien fait ! Serve him right!
13 Méconnaissable: Beyond recognition.
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19 Chiffre: Crest, name. Chiffre, a cypher, which in the old French cifre meant nought, is the Arabian çifr, nought.
20 On a cru que c'était moi: They believed it was myself,
21 C'est ça, for c'est cela: That's it; just so.
1 Je découvre: I am discoverinég.
23 Quoi donc? What, pray?
25 Nous pleurons: We are mourning.
28 C'est nouveau! It is original; it is new!
29 Drôle: Funny, odd.
2 Je trouve: I think.
— Ils rient aux éclats: They burst out laughing.
31 C’est mal! This is wicked!
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1 Ne pensons qu'à elle: Let us think only of her. 6 On y était mieux: We were better in it.
7 Il nous faudrait: We should want, 9 Diable! We are in a pretty fix.
11 Là-dedans: In there.
12 La voilà: There it is.
14 Ne bougez pas: Do not stir.
16 Je parie: I am sure.
19 Déjeûner : To breakfast ; from jetüner, to fast, and des or dé, to cease to fast, to break the fast.
20 Où il n'y a que: Where there are only. 21 Il n'y ajamais rien: There is never anything. 23 Comment ? What? How is that?
27 Pourquoi donc rougis-tu ? Pray, what are you blushing for? 2% Amoureux de toi: In love with you.
32 Ne la taquinez pas: Do not tease her, torment her.
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7 Ma chambre d'écolier ! My study-room.
8 Quelle symétrie! What order !
9 Mes herbiers: My herbarium.
10 Je ne m'y reconnais plus : I am quite lost,
11 Ce vieux grondeur: That old grumibler.
12 Mes affaires: My things.
| 13 Sois tranquille : Be easy, just wait.
44 14 Etudes: Drawings.
14 On les a fait encadrer: They had them framed.
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16 C'est ça! That's right!
17 Comment, tu m'enfermes? What! do you shut me up?
18 Sois sage: Be a good boy.
18 Il y va de la vie: The life is at stake,
19 En voila: This is.
21 Quand.je disais: Did I not say ?
22 Je le connaissais bien, or better, je Le savais bien: I knew it well Connaître is to know by the senses, savoir by the intellect. Thus je connais cette romance means I have seen or hcard that romance; je La sais means I can play it. Savoir never applies to persons, nor has things for its subject ; Je ne sais qu'une chose, c'est que je ne sais rien, I know but one thing, it is that I know nothing. Savoir, when applied to persons, is taken only in à bad or ironical sense, as je sais cet homme par cœur, I Know what that man is. Molière says, M. Jourdain sait son monde, M. Jourdain knows what kind of people he has to deal with.
23 A déjeûner : Something to breakfast on.
24 C'est juste: That's right.
2% Nous amuser: Enjoy ourselves.
26 Que c'est gentil: How pleasant, how nice.
La vilaine robe ! The ugly dress !
Ma robe rose! My pink dress!
Comme ça lui va bien, le bonheur! How happiness suits her well!
Une petite chèvre: Ayoung kid.
Vous voyait: Were to see you.
Je t'en price: I entreat you.
Sortir: To vent, to give vent to.
Ce cher enfant: That dear boy.
10 Pleuré: Mourned for.
13 Plus: More, more than that.
