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Page 67 Une 6— Las! "This adjeetive, used as an interjection, was not at first invariable ; a woman would say, hé, lasse! as in Latin, 'me lassant! 9 in hélas the interjection is hé, as in Uémi, où aurai-je recours / (R. de Coucy, twelfth century). Lat hei tnthi" — Génin.
68 4— J'eusse d'nn faux-fuyant la faveur tonte prête : 1 might hâve a convenient évasion in readinese. This is the doctrine of the " restrictions mentales,' ' mental réservations, which the Jesnits were accused of having invented, and which Pascal exposes in his ninth " Lettre à un Provincial.' ' r" 1
68 14— Quelque biais plus doux : Some gentler expédient This meaning of biais is more in accordance with the etymology than the usual one of slant, slope. The word is derived from the- Lat ôifacan, and is one of the four French wbrds which hâve lost the medial ph or / of the original language, the others being antienne»
ecrouelles, Etienne.
68 17 — Gueusant : Begging, a regular beggar— frora gueuser, to beg ; a more scornful term than mendier. ' T»
68 21— Ne voilà pas (for, ne voilà-t-il pas) de vos emporte»
mens 1 Is not that just like your hasty ways !
69 I — Ses apparences : Its counterfeit.
69 3— Le milieu qu'il faut : The happy inedinm.
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69 14— Contre son insolence on ne doit point gauchir •
You must not flinch before his insolence.
Gauchir (gauche, the left hand) to get otit of the straight road y îiieraîîy and figuratioely ; also to warp— ce panneau gauchit, this panel i* warped.
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70 to— Où je l'ai transféré : Which I hâve mad© «ver
to him. It forms an antithesis to d'où je l'ai retire.
70 12— Le pauvre homme t The incorrigible Donne cannot help seizing this opportumty of retaliating on her master in his own words. Sot Act L, se ▼•
t*4« £E TARTUFFE.
fmge 70 Une «5— Mais que fait ce discours ans choies d'aujourd'hui t But what* bas this speech to do with the présent business ?
70 86— On vous aura forgé : They most likely hâve mvented for your benefit. Remark the future . anterior used hère instead of the preterite Sndefinite on vont a forgé, which would be too affirmative.
-1 yt *»8— Fàut-û vous le rebattre aux oreilles cent fois:
Must I keep on drdmming it into your ears ?
T ? jf •'• » Y2— J'enrage 1 This maddens me.
ft T 14— Et c'est souvent' à mal que le bien s'interprète : A
bad construction is often put on a good action.
■ 7* 6— Aux menaces du fourbe on doit ne dormir poirt :
• Whenthe rascal threatens we should not
remain inactive
7* 8— Pour moi, je ne crois pas cette instance possible r
For my part, I do not believe hecan poasibly
make ont a case. Instance is hère used in thé
sensé of suit, demand.
. ^*" 16— A l'orgueil de ... : On sedng the insolence
of . . .
•i ; '*flf 24— Je suis bien en état que Von me vienne voir ! A 1 - mcebumour I am in for seeing anybody I
