Taia. A girPs pet name, explained later

4. serviette : portfolio, % 5. toute cette échappée de volière remontait : /i^e birds let loose froni a cage they ail returned.

6. au quatrième : to the fourth story, See Un Réveillon dans le Marais^ note 22.

7. Hemerlingue. A banker who, like the Nabob, the hero of this story, had made a great fortune at Tunis.

8. tableau d'Assomption. In paintings of the Assumption of the Virgin the central figure is generally surrounded by child faces peering from clouds.