pour ça, i. e. because I began poor

Page 40. — 1. machines, things. Colloquial in this sensé. 2. y tient, clings to them.

Page 41, — 1. fête, festival, i. e. her patron saint's day, corresponding to our birthday. The date seems without any peculiar significance.

2. quai aux fleurs, flower market, on the Ile de la Cité, between the Hôtel-Dieu and the Palais de Justice. He would naturally pass this in returning along the Seine from Bercy to the bourgeois résidence quarter of the city.