Tiens ! You see

3. Et ce que . . . réponds ! And how these ladies applauded him / . . . And there were plenty of them at his lecture^ I assure you. Et ce que, literally and that which, is equivalent to how or what in a free way as introductory to exclamations; it is common in colloquial French, less often seen in books.

4. Et dans des toilettes I See introduction. Sainte-Clotilde, one of the finest modern churches in Paris, built at a cost of eight million francs in honor of Clotilda, wife of Clovis I.

Page 33. — i. C'est un palimpseste ... autre I Palimpseste. Ancient parchment on which the copyists of the Middle Ages had effaced the characters in order to use the parchment again, and on which modem art has succeeded in making the original writing partly visible, qui en vaut bien un autre, which is as good as many an other.

2. Après tout, c'est ton métier. After all, it is your business.

3. vous, the pronoun which tells her that she is no longer on the old footing of familiar friendship. See n. i, p. 5.

Page 34. — i. pas de tenue I no deportment.

2. Mais qu'est-ce que tu veux? But how can I help it F . . , pas moyen, it is not possible ... ce n'est pas ma faute, va, it is not my faulty truly.