bien, nice rather than " good." Colloquial

3. Duprez, Gilbert Louis (1 806-1 880), was a famous singer and musical teacher. Madame Malingeàr proceeds to betray herself by saying that they were then expecting him to come for the lesson. Duprez would have given lessons only at the Conservatoire, or government school of music, where he had been prof essor (1 842-1 850).

Page 15. — 1. chantes, is used by Malingeàr in the colloquial sensé of "bragging," "boasting," but his wife chooses to understand it literally.

2. la Juive, an opéra (1835), ^ne masterpiece of Jacques François Halévy, whom the student should distinguish from Ludovic Halèvy, his nephew? and an author of a quite différent type.

3. grand pied, expensive scale, of course only according to her standard.

4. paraît. This verb is often used to express a courteous hésitation to contradict a statement that one does not believe.

5. forte, " sfeep" slang. Féminine as though to agrée with a suppressed chose or histoire,