Dieul Heavens

Page 86. — i. par exemple I cf. page 19, note 2.

Page 90. — I. le silence est d'or. Proverb from the Koran, " Speech is silvern, silence is golden."

3. Voilà qui promet I ironical, a fine augury! lit., "this is promising."

Page 93. — I. im loup, " wolf," an unsophisticated country girl.

Page 94. — I. Tezcellente figure que, what a kindly face.

Page 99. — I. Méridionale, hère, woman from Southern France.

Page 100. — I. lui, for il, by way of emphasis.

Page 102. — I. sa bouche en disait bien long, the expression of his mouth hetrayed his thought.

Page 103. — I. elle donnait des coups d'épée dans l'eau, she

strove in vain, wasted her énergies.

2. de faire quelque frais de conversation, to venture a few words.

3. Mont-St.-Michel, an island monastery and fortress on northwest coast of France.

Page 104. — I. je mettais . . . sur les dents, / vtade my partner dance until he was worn out.

2. vous ne m'emmènerez que par la force des baïonnettes, words attributed to the French orator Mirabeau in reply to the king's command that the Tiers État adjourn, 1789.

Page 105. — I. une fringale, lit., "an ardent longing," ^ usually for food; hère, to dance.

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