lâcheté, want of conciseness

1. 33. les allures dhm homme fait, the ways, the style of a (fuUgrown) man.

vous ne donniez point, you did not indulge.

P. 13, 1. 5. le mot et la chose, liter. both the word and the thing (expressed by that word), i. e. things such as they really are. 1. 7. lâché, let fall.

1. 8. ne point faire le vieillard... ni le petit maître, not to ape the old man... or the dandy.