mis le, taken your, colloquial

Page 31. — I. s'avait, for s1 était, common among the uneducated.

2. frisé, curled, i. e. a choice kind, but at best cabbage is a somewhat plebeian vegetable, a fact that adds piquancy to the close of this scène. Cp. page 54, note 4.

Page 32. — 1. grande toilette, full calling-dress. habit, dress-coat. The white gloves marked the occasion of the visit, as Emmeline did not fail to notice, line 18.

Page 33. — 1. ne voudront pas* Cp. page 18, line 27, and page 27, line 1.

2. Comment donc. Why certainly. The phrase has very various significations.

Page 34. — 1. Chère bonne, simply My dearest.

2. Vlan, etc. There it (i. e. the dust) goes, right in îheir eyes !

Page 35. — 1. mariage flambé, marriage that worût corne off. Flambe, literally " flashed,' ' i. e. missed fire. This metaphorical use is slang.

2. train de maison, scale of housekeeping* Cp. tenue de maison, page 18, line 26. .

3. par exemple, really now. This phrase has many meanings, among which "for example" is comparatively rare.

Page 36. — 1. moyen, means, "money." In this sensé the plural is more common.

2. Académie des sciences, one of the five Académies of the Institute of France. For détails see Encyc. Brit. i. 70, 74, and xiii. 160. Cp. page 25, line 25, and page 17, line 5.

3. Le silence, etc. A proverb : The weak may learn from the silence of the strong.

4. portes et les fenêtres, alluding to the quittances of page 35, line 10, and to the tax on doors and Windows, which ranges from 6 to 20 cents for each aperture, according to the size of the town.

5. plaider les expropriations, make land-damages my légal specialty. The point here is directed against the reckless extravagance of the Parisian municipality in cutting broad avenues {boulevards) through the most populous parts of the city, in laying out great parks and in clearing sites for new

buildings. In the expropriation of private property for thèse ends therewas great corruption which has left its mark deep in the literature of the period, for instance in Zola' s " La Curée," in Sardou's " Maison neuve," in About's "L'Homme à l'oreille cassé," and in Labiche's own "Moi." Of course this was the opportunity of an unscrupulous lâwyer, and that Malingear should suggest it shows that he paid more attention to his investments than to his medicine.

Page 37. — i. Italiens, Italian Théâtre, founded by Alexander Dumas in 1 847, the most expensive and fashionable théâtre of Paris at this time. It must not be confounded with the Italian Opéra which held the same social position from 181 8 till about 1838 and figures largely in the literature of the early romanticists.

2. loge pour la saison, box for the season, but probably for only one night a week. In French théâtres the boxes often extend, sometimes in several tiers, around the entire auditorium, and may be rented in whole or in part for the season for one or two nights a week. In certain théâtres leaders of fashion retain such boxes from year to year and make them the occasion of little informai réceptions, a custom constantly mentioned in modem drama and fiction.

3. salé, high-priced. Slang. So also line 13 and page 37, note 1.