cette fois tu tiens la note, now you have the key-note

5. Ah çà 1 Come, now ! interjection expressing encouragement; tu as done . . . fer? it is impossible that you have forgotten all I said to you on the railway ?

6. Plaisanter! ici? Infinitive absolute; as in English: Jest! here?

7. veux-tu être préfète, do you wish to be the wife of a prefect? For administration of local government the territory of France is divided into départements, arrondissements, cantons and communes; the head of the département is a préfet, of the arrondissement a sous-préfet, of the canton a member of the council of the département, and of the commune a maire. The préfet is so called from the Kom2in prafectus urbi, or warden of the city; he controls most of the government patronage, including the appointment of the sous-préfets, is superintendent of the police establishment, enforces the laws, and may call out the military at discretion. The préfet is nominated by the President of the republic, but it is understood that this office is in the gift of the Minister of the Interior.

8. tout à Fheure, with reference to future t\me, presently, immediately ; with reference to ^2&\.,just noiv, but just, etc.