je ne m'en cache pas ! / make no secret of it

Page 21. — I. tu auras beau faire, you will try in vain to do anything,

2, Giboulées d'avril, April showers.

3. Ah ça, est-ce que . . . s'amuse ici? Welly do you fancy that people enjoy themselves here ? — 4. bien oui I in ironical sense.

5. fourrée, surrounded^ This word means closely mixed up withy as planted amongy hedged in by, young people,

6. Nous autres femmes. We women. Nous may also be construed us in harmony with the following qui ne nous ennuie jamais, which never tires us. Autres gives emphasis to the noun; e.g., we women — »#/ men.

Page 22. — i. Allons donc I The force of this exclamation is often to express that the speaker considers a proposition or statement as false or foolish. Translate : What nonsense I

2. on s'en fait d'autres, we create others (i.e. other means of happiness) fir ourselves,

3. en résumé, to sum up the whole matter, — 4. tuteur, guardian,

Page 23. — i. Ce n'est pourtant . . . cette toilette-là. But it is net

for the man named Schopenhauer that you have made this toilette ?