avoir le cœur trop haut, to be too high-minded

Page 50. — 1. sur ce pied-là, at that rate.

2. Vous ne vous attendez pas à être loué par vos propres rivaux, peut-être, you hardly expert to be praised by your own rivais, I take it. Dorante's answer is very sensible, and Mario acknowledges it, but the answer is superior to Dorante's supposée station in life. Throughout the play Marivaux, with a keen appréciation of character, makes the personages speak according to their true condition, in spite of their efforts at disguise, and the contrast between their clothes and their speech is amusing.

Page 51. — 1. Il ne me le dit plus . . répéter, he does not tell me so any more, he merely repeats it to me. A pretty line and a good example of Marivaux's charming wit.

2. J'attends qu'elle me l'ordonne, / am waiting for her to order me to do it. Dorante's refusai to obey Mario indicates too plainly who he is, and the scène, although interesting, is soinewhat exaggerated.

Page 52* — i. le bien prendre, to look at it in a favorable light.

2. mon cher père. In this conversation with her father and her brother Silvia is very différent from whatjfhe was a little before. She is now certain of Dorante's love, Mid knows that she may love him without restraint; therefore, sjie becomes éloquent when she says (p. 53, 1. 9) : c'est le coup du hasard, etc.

Page 58. — i. c'est le coup du hasard . . . etc., it is the most singular stroke of chance, the most fortunate, the most ... If not interrupted by her brother she would make use of ail the adjectives of Mme. de Sévigné, when the charming marquise announces the engagement of Mlle, de Montpensier, the first cousin of Louis fc XIV, to Lauzun, a nobleman of inferior rank.