pour arriver à, to accomplish

6. en vouloir depends on il faudrait, it would necessitate still more hard feelings.

Page 68. — 1. tout à l'heure, just now. This expression may also refer to the future. Cf. page 59, note 3.

2. avec colère. The comical effect of this anger is in its coming so soon after B.'s remark that the queen could not get angry.

3. si Pon met en avant, if people act on the pretext (of caring for the interests of the State).

4. quand il s'agit de caprices, when their real interest is in capricious fancies . . .

5. le petit Masham, this petit is rather a term of endearment, and not necessarily literal; "our dear Masham."

6. ... à quoi tenez-vous ? this may be rendered literally, on what do you hang? or by an equivalent: "on what slight circumstances do you depend ? "

Page 69. — 1. Aventure . . . imagination, a romantic adventure which took her lively fancy.