râleuse": "haggler"; also "onc

that asks the price of evetything and buys nothing."

76, 3. Clieyet : a celebrated caterer whose emporium for delicacies, situated in the GalUrie de Chartres at the Palais Royaly is without an equal.

78, 15. niminm fortnnatos, lua si bona norint: i.e., '*too happy, had he known hîs own bliss." The quotation îs from Vergil, Georgics II, 458-459, ** Ofortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint , Agricolas ! "

16. la Joie fait penr : the title of a popular comedy by Madame de Girardin, who lived 1804-1855.

81, 5. Beioherelle : Louis Nicolas Bescherelle, 1802-1883, an eminent grammarian and the author of an admirable and popular French dictionary.

82, 12. avec une équité salomonesqne :

** with the justice of a Solomon."

88, 8. l'eau rongie : water colored with a few drops of wine.

85, 21. s'éoontaiit digérer: " nursing her digestion."