Tant il est vrai que . .. So #rue it is that

27.—6. étourderies, #houghtlessness. — Ineffable, from the Latin i# (negative) and jai to speak, has here its strict etymological meaning.

29.— 16. sport-boy: this pseudo-English word is not generally used in French. It seems coined from the word sportsman.

19. pli here means the habit or bent acquired through a long practice of one occupation. One says: 77 a le pli du métier; le pli du bureau is the special habit of a man who does clerical work in an office. Compare #/; in his ordinary sense of f/arf, fold of a cloth, a dress.

Elle avait pris ce pli dans son âge enfantin. —V, Hugo (Les Contemplations),

23. jouer au voleur, au naufrage ... 70 play lhief, shipwreck.

30.— 4. parler marine, # 4alÆ navy, 1. e. to talk about naval subjects. Compare other expressions like: parler musique, littéralure, etc.