inventés: Explain the form

6,4. de rente: ** in government bonds." 17. Âsec: *• stranded,*' **out of cash." 21. vn le grand nombre de dîners en ville:

" since he would be invited frequently to

dine out."

7, 13. Bntte-anx-Cailles: name of a hill and Street in the southern part of Paris, in the poor quarter, near the Place d* Italie.

8, 10. Brossant : Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, the French comedian, lived 1815-1886.

O, 12. traiter de: "call," '^consider." 10, 2. la barre de la cheminée: ' * f ender."

9, titre de rente quatre et demi: "four and a half per cent, government bond/' '* government four and a half."