Elle baisse d'un ton, lit. she sings one tone lower

1. 400. vaurien, good-for-nothing fellow, i.e, un homme qui ne vaut rien. Some writers of the fifteenth century hâve the word vaultnéant.

L 402. à jamais, for ever. jfamais is derived from jà {h.jam), already, and mais used in the sensé of plus, more, L. magis. Comp. the expression n^en pouvoir maison* en pouvoir plus, The original meaning of jamais is an affirmative one, and it becomes négative only in connection with ne either expressed or understood.

1, 416. je ne puis croire. The négative *not'' is expressed by ne without pas or point with the three verbs cesser, to cease, oser, to dare, pouvoir, to be able, when followed by an infinitive.

1. 417. ne m'en ouvrez la bouche, i. e. n^ottvrez la bouche devant moi sur ce sujet.