je tiens surtout à la ressemblance, 'above ail I want

it to 1)0 H ko you.' 23. mains crispées, ' hands nervously clutching the air,'

Notes. 95

55. 25-28. There appear to be three things referred to in thèse Unes : — (1) the Musée de Veraaille» (12 miles from Paris), in the great château there, consisting chiefly of historical (laiDtiugs; (2) oiie of the musées of Paris, probably the mutée du LouiTt, containing oue of the greatest collections of art, ancient and modem, in the world ; and (3) the yearly Exposition of the Salon. But Perrichon's ideas of art are very confused.

66. 1. pas de banque, 'noquackery.' Allusion to the old use of the Word for the booths of the fair, or the stands of the mountebanks.