une belle page. Supply 'dans mon histoire

37. 9. comment donc ! ' Oh, certainly !' Cf. note to 21. 4. 14. frimas. Rhetorical word for ' snow,' *ice,' etc.

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voilà, ' hère you are. '

tiens I ' Oh !' ' hère !' ' I say !'

lui à ce monsieur. Pleonastic expression for the

sake of emphasis. Cf. note to 36. 20. tiens! 'ah!' 'indeedl' e*est juste le compte, ' that is just our number.'

je reprendrais la corde, *I shouid get on tho iuside

track again' ; * I shouid get the advantago again.' The allusion is to the rope marking the iuside limit of a circular race- course.