Je m'en doutais. — I suspected as much

10. Je ne vous en veux pas. — JBhi vouloir à is often idiomatically used in French in a manner tbat renders an exact English rendering very difficult. Hère Malingear means, I don't wish any réclamation from you — I can readily excuse you for it.

11. Palais; i.e., palais de jusUce. — The court. So called from the fact tbat the Parliament of Paris held its sittings in what was formerly tbe palace of the flrst race of French kings. The tenu was afterwards extended to other courts in France. Hence the expressions, Oens de palais^ members of the bar ; terme de palais, law term.

12. Bâtonnier. — This word signifies one who bas in his custody the staff (J)âton) of a corporation. It is ^enerally applied now to the head of the French bar, the chairman of the board of discipline, the représentative of the whole order. See Chbrdel, Dict. Hisiorvque des Institutions, mœwrs et eot^ tumssde la France.

18. 2>wpr«. —Celebrated French singer, bom in 1806. He was professor at the Conservatoire from 1842 to 1850. His daughter is one of the celebrities of the opéra.

14. Qu'est-ce que tu chantes làf — Chanter is often familiarly

used for " talk nonsense." Malingear, who hears for the first time that Duprez is his daughter's music-teacher, says to his wife, '.* What nonsense are you talking there ?" She, intent upon dazzling her vîsitor, replies, taking chanter in its literal sensé, *' A pièce from * The Jewess ' " (opéra by Halévy).