La Riponne. A square at Lausanne

108.— 10. Peut-être avait-elle ses mouches. Allusion to the fly on the coach wheel. A7X)ir ses mouches, to be stung, excited. Thus hère : There may hâve been several reasons for her attention being aroused.

17. Entre chien et loup. Idiom: in the dusk of evening, t. e., when it is already so dark that one cannot distinguish a dog f rom a wolf .

109.— 2. Qu^on filât le marquis. FUer, expression used by French détectives : to watch and follow, without the person f oUowed being aware of it.

110.— 15. Me faire blanc de mon épée. Blanc, fig. ; frequently : innocent. Thus : se faire blanc de son ^pée: to justify one's self by one's

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Bword (as was done in the duels in mediœval

times) , or also, as hère : to boast of an influence or of a power one does not possess.

111.— 22. Parlez done raison à un amoureux. Wbatisthe use of talking sensé to a lover.

113. — 5. Use mit à rire de plus beUe, Began to laugh more than ever.

8. c Honteux comme un renard qu^une poule aurait pris, » Quotation from La Fontoine's Le renard et la cigogne (The Fox and the Stork), I, xvu

114.— 23. Meillerie,., Rocher de Saint-Preux, Allusion to the Bochers de Meillerie, at the extrême east of the Lake of Geneva, where Saint-Preux, the famous lover of Julie, in a novel by Jean- Jacques Rousseau, went to walk, thinking over his love.

115.— 17. Je me fais une conscience de (or : Je vie fais conscience de), I make it a matter of con»

science.