Tu les porteras, you \vill iuscribe tliem, put tliem

down.

8. jusqu'à nouvel ordre, For the présent. (Cf. Until furtlier orders.)

15. Dans ma petite loge du rez-de-chaussée? iu my small * box ' close to the stage [lit. on the groundfloor].

20. madame des Ursins, ' the type of a female politician.' Anne Marie de la Trémomlle, Princesse des Ursins (Italiau, Orsini) (1641-1722), who, during the lifetime of Philip V. 's first queeu (1701-14), exercised a suprême influence over that sovereign's court in favour of Louis XIY.'s policy. She had been left a widow by the Prince of Tailleyrand- Chalais in 1670, and a second time by the Duke Orsini de Bracciano in 1698 (hence her name des Ursins). After the death of Philip Y. 's iii'st queen she did in Rome the honours of the house of the Pretender James Stuart.

27. je l'appuie de nouveau, I shall plead in its favour auew.