C'est plus fort que moi. — 1 can't help it

41. Je prendrai sur mm. — 1 will restrain myself, 43: Sa bouche en cœur, — llcf pn.i'Fed-up lips-

43 KHe nous Va fait dire. — She sent us word.

44 Mon laisser-aller de grand seigneur, — My lord.y :ndifferenc9»

45 Dame ! Well now; see Note 13 to " La Maison de Penarvan." iQ. Monsieur le premier 2)7^ésident. — EquWsi\ent m Engîish to the ad-

dress, *'yonr honor." In French courts of justice, the presiding -udge m called Le Premier P^'ésident.

47. Les entournures ne vont pas. — The sîeeves don't fit. Entournure is properly the slopin^ of the sleeve at the armhole.

48. C'est àconjondre de tenue^ de manières, de distinction! souvent j^ai cm qu'elle était des nôtres. — The meaning of the words taken separately présents no difficulty, although it would be nearly impossible to translate the whole phrase literally into Enghsh. It might perhaps be tieeîy rendered, it is perfectly astonishing to think M'hat olegance, what niaimers, what au air of distinction, she has. I have often thought that siie must bo of our own rank.

49. Cela dessine et accuse la taille , . . sans la trahi':''. — It sets off and Bhows the form without revealing it.

60. Ah ! tant pis ! en avant les grands moyens ! — Ah, well ! I can't help it ! Now for violent means I

61. Ce que c'est pourtant qu'un bègue lancé I — To think what a stamœerer can do when he is once startedî