du monde, company

3. Mes compliments, d'ailleurs. / congratulate you — in other respects (i.e. excepting the spectacles) .

4. C'est égal has here much the the sense of however. See n. 2, p. 8.

Page 24. — i. mon ami, my dear, — 2. tiens I look ! Page 25. — i. Voyons, voyons, come^ come !

2. marivaudrez. Verb formed from the name of a French writer, Marivaux (1688- 1763), whose style is characterised by excessive affectation of subtlety. .

3. à tcate à l'heure,/?/- a little while. Compare à demain, à bientôt, au revoir ; expressions in which adieu is understood ar prefixed, and the last word gives the time of meeting again.

Page 26. — i. on ne peut plus calmes, one cannot {be') calmer. Calmes is plural to agree with ceux-là.

2. parlons-en un peu. Il y avait long;temp8 . . . The sense is here incomplete; en probably refers to Roger's affairs in general, and not to his interview with the minister; in which, as we see later, the duchess takes little interest. II y avait longtemps. It has been a long time . . . (e.g. since we could talk of them).

3. ruban de chevalier, ribbon worn by members of the Legion of Honor, membership in which is a reward of merit in civil and educational as well as in military affairs. Of9.cier, the next grade above chevalier.

Page 27. — i . de Musset. French poet and dramatic author of the romantic school (i 810-185 7).