Se fient à leur facilité. — Trust to their readiness

11. Je ne dis pas de mal de. — I don't say any thing against.

12. Qu'est-ce que c'est que ces côtelettes-là ? — What kind of cutlets are those ? Eor remarks on qu'est-ce que c'est que, etc., see Grammar, p. 264, §§ 3, 4, 5.

13. Côtelettes soubise, h la purée d'ognons. — Many cookery terms such as carpe a la Chambord, etc., are usually left untranslated even in English cookery -books. Several Soubises are known in French history ; to which of thern belongs the honor of being associated with cutlets, I do not know. Ognon is often spelt oignon, the i being then silent. A la purée d'ognons means served up with onion sauce. See Grammar, p. 233, § 5.

14. C'est comme si je chantais. — It is like talking to the wind. Chanter, literally to sing, is also familiarly used in the sensé of to talk nonsense, to talk without effect.

15. Elles paraissent très-bien réussies. — They seem to be quite a success.