SCÈNE XII

L 27. on vous sonne depuis une heure, * they have been ringing for you for the last hour' (and are still ringing). The idiomatic présent tense again. Cf. p. 12, 1. 8 and p. 21, 1. 30.

1. 28. misérables laquais de condition, sarcastically, 'wretched swells of footmen*. Laquais misérables would mean that they were really misérable.

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L 10. montiez, 'you are to go up to'. The près, subj.

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