comme passé au rouleau, soothed down as with a roller

Page 87. — 1. le plus propre, ##%e best calculated ; lit, “the most proper.”

Page 88.— 71. un propre à rien, a good-for-nothing fellow.

Page 39.— 1. elle tira . . . son aiguille, 54e sewed ; lit., “she drew . . . her needle.”

2. Pénélope, the wife of Ulysses, who, in order to get rid of the many suitors who wished to marry her during the twenty years’ absence of her husband, declared that she would consent to marry again when a work of embroidery she had commenced should be completed; but as she undid during the night the work done in day-time, she always was able to discard her lovers ; hence wxe tapisserie de Pénélope means “ an endless work of embroidery.”

Page 40. — 1. en flagrant délit et lui dire son fait, #7 #he very act and give him a piece of my mind.

2. la patte dans le sac, ##7 #%e very act ; lit. “with his paw in the sack.”

3. Cartouche et Mandrin, two famous French highwaymen who lived in the 18th century.