comme passé au rouleau, smoothed down as with a roller

Page 37. — i. le plus propre, the best calculated; lit., "the most proper."

Page 38. — i. un propre à rien, a good-for-nothing fellow.

Page 39. — i. elle tira . . . son aiguille, she sewed ; lit., "she drew , . . her needle."

2. Pénélope, the wif e 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 ni^ht the work done in day-time, she always was able to discard her lovers ; hence une tapisserie de Pénélope means " an endless work of embroidery."

Page 40. — I. en flagrant délit et lui dire son fait, in the very act and give him a pièce of my mind,

2. la patte dans le sac, in the very act ; lit., " with his paw in the sack."

3. Cartouche et Mandrin, two famous French highwaymen who lived in the i8th century.