II. pâles, ' lack-lustre

14. brouillés, 'bedinimed.' déconfit, ' woeful. ' chétive, ' wizen-looking. ' ,. 20. mon chifl5*e, ' the sum I offered,' ' my figure.' .. 22. a pris la mouche, ' got into a passion,' ' flared up." Cf. prendre froid, prendre la fièvre, etc. ; hence pre7idre la mouche, fig. to be stung by a fly, a horse-fly, and to act like an animal under such circumstances — that is, to become suddenly uncontroUable.

,, 23. patte, popular for yaw^^.

une scène ! see note p. 38, 1. 17.

, , 25. et tu tires et je tire, popular ' and ihey tugged and tugged.'

104. 2. Sèvres à la Reine : Sèvres porcelain marked with an A,

standing for Antoinette, i.e. Queen Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI. Sèvres, a small town in Seine-et-Oise, celebrated for its factory of porcelain.