Lammnet — A French landscape painter, bom

16. Tu mis bien.— M. Malingear, forgetting the injunction of his wife in the preceding scène, " Surtout ne me tutoie pas devant cette dame," hère says tu; correcting himself, he then says vom; which af terwards calls from Emmeline the exclamation, ** Vous!. . .est-ce que papa et maman sont fâchés?". . .

17. Et patati / et patata !,. . — Onomatopœia, used only in the most familiar style, to imitate the gallop of a horse. Hère it renders the idea, " What a rate my wife is going atl"

18. Btiolz. — A French chemist, bom in 1810, whose name is inseparably connected with the electro-galvanic process of gilding metals.

19. 2>M? louis dans ce plai, etc.— The prevîous and subséquent management of Madame Malingear, in regard to the numbers of admission given to patients when they are numerous, explains itself. She now does what may need some explanation to those unacquainted with French customs. The fées of celebrated physicians are generally known, and those who come to consult them do not ask what they owe, nor do they présent money directly, but deposit, as they leave the apartment, what custom prescribes, or what their generosity may prompt them to give, upon some article of furniture. At the end of the next scène, we shall see Ratinois go through this ridiculous mode of proceeding, — a fashion more ancient than reasonable.

20. Je me porte comme le pont Neuf. — I am as well as I can be. The pont Neuf is found in a great number of familiar proverbial expressions. This ancient bridge bas lost its former quaint physiognomy during the présent century; especially since 1853. "Se porter comme le pont Keuf* was said in allusion to the great solidity of the structure.