Touchez ... là, Shake hands

16. un conseil de famille, a famUy councU, strictly, a meeting of relatives, presided over by a justice of the peace, to deliberate on the interests of a minor.

19. me faire interdire, to have me dedared incapable of managing my own affairsy a légal expression.

23. La parole est à monsieiu: Poirier, Mr. Poirier has the floor.

30. — 1. Palsambleul Corruption of par le sang {de) Dieu! Translate: By Jove! Gaston, as a représentative of the old nobility, is fond of old-time oaths.

16. Henri Heine, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet and miscellaneous writer.

NOTES

19. à faire Pécole buissonnière, in pîaying truarU. École huiasori' nière -"school in the bushes."

21. Heine, interrogé sur le sort, etc. A woman in Heine's BeiaebUder says: ^'While I was still young in Dublin and sat at my mother's feet, I once asked what people did with the old f ull moons. 'My dear child/ said mother, 'the Lord breaks the old moons to pièces with the sugar hammer, and makes little stars of them."'