sous-gouverneur, vice-président

3. trois shillings six pence : a shilling (12 pence) is about 25 cents.

4. il . . . observer, it is proper to call the attention to the fact (or la point oui).

5. invalides, invalides, referring to the French custom of employing old soldiers as watchinen at the banks.

6. " détectives," with quotation marks, as borrowed from English» The corresponding French word is agents de la police secrète (or police de sûreté}.

7. Suez, pron. Su-èss ; Brindisi (seaport town in southern Italy, on the Adriatic), pron. Brain-disi ; New York, pron. Neu-iork.

Page 9. — 1. robbre or robre, rubber (in whist), but hère simply in sensé of game.

2. Allons donc ! Why ! Nonsense ! The imperatives of aller and venir are thus often used interjectionally; the rendering depending somewhat on the context {allons ' corne, why,' etc.; tiens ' hold there, see hère,' etc.; tenez, 'hold, now, please, lo,' etc.: cf. Edgr. 109, note; Wh. 222, b).