CHAPTER XI
Page IIC. 1. Postthàl: post-yard. — 2. le perron: the steps of the church. See page 116, line 1. — 3. Dieu du ciel, il t'en faut à toi, du temps pour faire une commission : gracious me, it takes you long enough to do an errand.
Page 115. 1. il se plaça môme sur son derrière : he even sat up.
Page 116. 1. petits bois en fourche: small forked sticks. On page 117, last lino, they are called les petites fourches.
206 MADAMK TH^BàSE.
Faos 117. 1. Bois donc tranqnlUe: never fear. — 2. que: and. — 3.tiiJ]«ie: tile-yaid or brick-yarcL
Faos lis. 1. oaraotère: disposition.
Faos 119. 1. malins : naughty. —2. il a pfis: he has been catching.
Faos 120. 1. moaiUoir : A cap in which spinners moisten the ends of their Angers. — 2. que le del conlonde : whom may heaven conf onnd. — 3. le vlenx sergent venn tout exprès : the old sergeant who liad come purposely for them. — 4. restent plantées là : remain behind. — 6. à se oonsntner et à s^emmyer : pining away and having a dull time of it.
FAOB121. 1. à la veillée: to sit op.
Faob 123. 1. Je voulais en avoir le oœnr net : I wished to know the facts in the case. — 2. n*a pas donné : did not take part, was not engaged.
Faos 124. 1. Vous ne m*en diriex pas pins que Je serais déjà trop heureuse : even if you should tell me no more, I should be too happy already. — 2. rattraper: catch up with.— -3. depuis la ligne de rBrbach : from the line of the Erbach (river).
Faob 125. 1. les évacuer: to send them off. — 2. nous avons manqué d^ensemble : we lacked concerted action.
Faob 126. 1. Cornelia : Probably a reference to Cornelia, a Boman matron, mother of the tribunes Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. She was idolized by the people, who erected a statue to her with the inscription, *' Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi.*'
Faob 128. 1. en appuyant sur les mots : laying stress upon his words, emphatically.
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Faob 131. 1. quatre à quatre : That is, quatre marcîhespqr quatre marckes^ four steps at a time; in hot haste.— 2. Joliment: pretty well.
Fagb 133. 1. écartant mes cheveux: stroking back my hair. De mon front is added on page 167, line 23.-2. Intérieure: secret — 3. On a beau dire, ce sont les femmes qui font Tintérieur d'une say what you will, it is the women that make the home.
