ACT IV. SCENE I

Page 71. — I- il m’oblige de, he pîits me uuder obligations by (défaire for en faisant).

2. que. To avoid répétition of conune. The satire on high livers ■«vhich is thus introduced seems somewhat inappropriate to the occasion. Damis can hardly mean any one in particular. La Bruyère uses it later as the name of a popular author who has but one detractor. See “ Des Ouvrages de l’Esprit,” in Les Caractères.

3. pain de rive, à biseau doré, loaf exposed to the heat on ail sides, with a golden kissing-crust. The rive is here the edge of the oven. The loaf set there is separated from the other loaves and is thus browned ail over. The biseau is the overlapping crust of such an isolated loaf.

4. relevé de croûte partout, set off everywhere with a crust. Crusted ail over because of its isolation.