le sou. See note to page 26, line

14. bureau de bienfaisance, hoard of charity, which publishes lists (listes, below) of donors in the newspapers.

35. — 1. Si je les ai connusl Did I know them! Vous demandez is understood: " (You ask) if I knew themi" *

2. arabes, usurers; lit., ''Arabs." Molière uses arabe in the sensé of "usurer" in V Avare (II, 1). *

3. au denier deux, at the rate of one denier for each two lent, ai fifty per cent, The denier was an old French coin worth onetwelfth of a sou,