quelque chose, " sojnething up." Colloquial here

Page 10. — I. doutais, suspected, not "doubted."

2. A la bonne heure, Well. Said with relieved satisfaction. This phrase has many shades of meaning, and must be rendered always according to the context.

3. Exécutant, performing (of musicians); and also with an allusion to s'exécuter, " be in liquidation," " wind up business." A bad pun.

4. ça, that kind of thing, familiar for cela, i. e. from his own expérience. VOUS en veux pas, think the worse ofyou for it, lay it up against you, or the like.

5. démarche. Itwas, and, though less universally, still is the French custom that the parents of the man ask the parents of the girl for her hand. They then arrange the conditions of the marriage contract or légal agreement in regard to dower and property under which the new family is to live. On this subject see Encyc. Brit. xv. 568, reprinted with additions in the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Labor, 1889 (Marriage and Divorce), page 1004. Much useful information is gathered in "Almanach Hachette"

1896), page 512-514.

Page 11. — I. d'ici là, from now till then.

2. Pour le monde, For sociétés sake, i. e. for thf sake of appearances.

3. palais, i. e. the Palais de Justice, the centrai law-court of Paris. 4« musée, i. e. the Musée du Louvre, which is the muséum of Paris.

5. bâtonnier, président of the order of French barristers, leader of the bar.

6. existence. In 1861 this romantic tone would not seem quite so out of place as now. See page 5, note 3, of my édition of " Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon."

Page 12. — 1. porte. Observe how artificial éducation and restraint of manners make French girls precociously artful, at least in comedy.

2. appartement du troisième, i. e. the suite of rooms, or " flat " four flights of stairs from the street. The ground floor is the rez-de-chaussée, the next the entresol, then first corne the premier, the second, etc. In Paris ail families except the quite wealthy live in such apartments. Houses occupied by a single family are called hôtels.