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

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

1. 402. à jamais, for ever. Jamais is derived from Jà (L. jam), already, and mais used in the sensé of plus, more, L. magis, Comp. the expression n^en pouvoir mais—n^n 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 ox 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"* ouvrez la bouche devant moi sur ce sujet.