La Biponne, A square at Lausanne

106. — 10. Peut-être avait-elle ses mouches. Allusion to the fly on the coach wheeL Avoir ses tnouches, 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, i, 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 ollowed being aware of it.

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

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sword (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.— 23. Parlez done raison à un amoureux. Whatisthe use of talking sensé to a lover.

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

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

114.— 28. MeiUerie.,. Rocher de Saint-Preux. Allusion to the Rochers de Meillerie, at the extrême east of the Liake 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 me fais conscience dé). I make it a matter of conscience.