d'un air ennuyé, in a weary tone

46. 12. on décore tout le monde, they give the cross to everybody. 14. un barbouilleur de toiles, un faiseur de paysages, a dauber

or landscape maker.

19. vous donnent le droit d'être un inutile, give you a right to

be a useless member of society.

24. vos paroles désobligeantes, your harsh words. 28. me demandait en mariage, were to ask me to marry him. 30. plein d'avenir, with a future before him.

47. 9- ^ l'honneur de vous fedre part, begs to inform you, or has

great pleasure in informing you.