ACTE m, SCÈNE VII

LA DUCHESSE, au docteur Embrassez-le. Vous le devez.

LE DOCTEUR, devinant le sacrifice de son frère Oh!

Ils s'embrassent RIDEAU

The heavy figures refer to pages; the light figures to Unes.

5, 4. Connais pas, colloquial, "Don't know hîm."

6, 6. On ne visite pas, "this establishment is not open to the public/'

12. à moins de connaître un malade et que celui-ci consente à le recevoir, "unless he knows a patient and the latter consents to receive him." Que stands for à moins que as is usual in French when a conjunction is repeated. Compare page 41, line 12, quand vous serez cardinal , . . et que vous descendrez de carrosse. This practice is very generally overlooked by students and causes trouble especially in long sentences.

12, 6. qu'on a Pair d'y tenir, "as one likes to make out.'* 16. Ce sont des regrets en moins, allez! — Ou en plus. "Well so much theless to regret!" Or "so much the more."

15, Q. Non plus, "No, I do not do that either." Such expressions must be translated with great freedom according to the context.

11. vous trouvez, " You really think so?" Cf. 52, 10, tu trouves?

16, 7. n ne faut pas, " You must not." The stilted, impersonal "It is not necessary," does not translate II ne faut pas. Falloir corresponds most closely to the EngHsh "must" or "hâve to."

12. Pourquoi faire? "What for?" another of the many phrases a literal translation of which, as they occur constantly in the rapid dialogue of a play, is ruinous to the sensé.

17, 9. quand même, "even if." Quand, with or without même, used with the conditional, or occasîonally the subjunctive, always means "even if."

18, 6. impatiences. This common use of the plural of abstract nouns in French to indicate more than one case or sort of whatever the noun stands for îs rarely found in English. The force of the plural can scarcely be rendered hère. Sometimes a clumsy phrase

such as "ail sorts of," "of ail kînds'' wîll do duty for the French expression. Other cases are: convoitises , 42, 8; sollicitides ^ 71, 10; courages j 149, 7; pitiés, 164, 2.

19, 6. vous vous y attendrez le moins, " You expect ît the least." Attendre means "to wait for," more rarely, "expect," s'attendre à having regularly this meaning.

10. En voilà un qui souffrirait, "There is a man who would suffer."

21, 3. Il ne fallait pas tant, "You should not hâve proved it to me so well."

5. n'en soyez pas trop vain? The use of the question mark în modem French plays often seems strange to an English speaking student. It is used to indicate a sort of suspension which without being actually a question, approaches ît by the inflection of the voice and the tone given in some measure to the thought. Compare page 117, line 8, where the Abbé says to the doctor "Poursuis? Achève?", "Go on! Finish!" There are several other similar instances in the DueL In fact Lavedan is particularly addicted to this peculiar punctuation.

25, 12. n dit volontiers, "he likes to say." Volontiers quite regularly corresponds to the English verb "to like."

27, 14. un pays de promenade, "a country to go about în."

28, 9. j'ai mauvaise tête, "I am pigheaded."

29, 10. Moi-même, je n'en revenais pas. On se fait des mondes ... et puis, ime fois qu'on y est, "I could not get over my surprise. You get an exaggerated idea of a thing . . . and then when it comes."