Ah çà ! à nous deux, Now corne ! between you and me

3. gasconnades, boastful pretenses, so called because ,the inhabitants of Gascony, the old name for a duchy in southwest France, are noted for their exaggeration in speech.

4. Glumeau, of course an invented name derived hom glume (chaff, husk.)

Page 20. — 1. lui font mal aux nerfs, irritate her.

2. -sous presse, " in the press,' ' at the printers, where she implies they will afterward prétend that the manuscript has been burned.

3. Allons, donc! Oh! corne now! expostulating. See also page 37, line 30.

Page 21. — 1. t'y prends, catch you in it.

2. bijoutiers, i. e. persons skillful enough to recognize unostentatious merit.

3. câble Ruolz, great electroplated chain. Henri, comte de Ruolz-Montchal (1808-1887) was " one of the first inventors of gold and silver-plating by the action of the Voltaic pile."