so that being grazed. 20. prettily

Page 400. — 1. trapped out thus. 2. one would think it is carnival hère. 3. thehouse clean. 4. gang. 5. tiredout. 6. Maux, a vulgar pronunciation for beaux. 7. are very nimble-tongued. 8. loosen ail the bricks, carriaux for carreaux, see 6. 9. advantages. 10. would to heaven I were to be whipped even now. 11. you would be ail the better for it. 12. fools. 13. nonsense. 14. there! see what cornes by studying. 15. just say. 16. nonsense. 17. ought to send away. 18. fooleries. 19. loobily.

20. deuce take thehussy! 21. managed very well. 22. with whom you hâve become infatuated. 23. he will take good care not to do so ; literally : he will not fail to fail. 24. to wheedle you.

Page 405. — 1. you are as genteelîy dressed as possible. 2. a proverbial expression, meaning, ' he talks of what gives him pleasure.' 3. put on your hat. 4. get out of debt. 5. a hundred and tvventy. (5. milch cow. 7» will drain you to the last farthing. 8. many persons.

Page 408. — 1. of noble birth. 2. they spend few words upon it. 3. shake hands. 4. are we descended from St. Louis ? 5. understand your drift. 6. but from good citizens. 7. now for slander. 8. tradesman. 9. plague take. 10. she never faiis to say so. 11. they are ill-informed people. 12. suitable.

13. beggarly and ill-shaped. 14. silliest booby. 15. are always meddling. 16. should fail through inadvertence. 17- to play at la madame, the name of a garae played by children. 18. so great a lady as she is now.

Page 41 1. — 1. your late.

Page 413. — 1. Oh unforeseen misfortune ! 2. what business had he in that galley? (This droll exclamation of Géronte has become proverbial.) 3. in the pace of a horse.

Page 420. — 1. judgment. 2. his professors always spoke highly to me. 3. by dint of striking the iron, ( persevering.' 4. degrees. 5. to the utmost. 6. thesis, or disputation in philosophy. 7- take the hand. 8. convoler, to marry again ; *flew/ 9. (is corne) fresh (from collège). 10. he will always surpass you in retort.

Page 425. — 1. e uneven.'

Page 427. — 1- will not do for you. 2. will fondle. 3. in earnest. 4. bless me !

Page 430. — 1. ignorant. 2. présent my respects. 3. interpréter. 4. blockhead.

Page 439. — l. just as it happens. 2. I wash my hands of it ; ?. e. I am not concerned in it. 3. let it be as it may, I shall not care. 4. peace-officer of the ward, quartier {de la ville).

Page 441. — 1. why does he take into his head ?

Page 442. — 1. folding-chair.

Page 446.— L to physic. 2. would be very well content with her. 3. shoulder-blade. 4. midrif (diaphragme, muscle trèslarge et fort mince, situé à la base de la poitrine, qu'il sépare d'avec l'abdomen). 5. this indeed is the cause why your daughter is dumb. Voilà ce qui fait que votre fille est muette : this phrase has become a proverbial expression, and is applied to unintelligible and absurd arguments. 6. would that I had such a wellhung tongue!

Page 450. — 1. troublesome business. 2. attempt upon my freedom. 3. honesty. 4. safeguard. 5. likely to be so. 6. who hâve contributed to the Elégant extracts. 7. infinit ely obliged. 8. dabble in it. 9. supremely fine.

Page 453.— 1. my dear. 2. attendance at court. 3. are not inferior to me. 4. tenderness. 5. by a grenade.