Rébarbatifs. — Répulsive ; literally, stern, crabbed

6. Ne me revient point. — Does not take my fancy, or, simply, does not please me.

7. Je me veux mettre en colère tout mon soûl, quand il m'en prend envie. — I want to get angry to my heart's content, when I hâve a mind to. A modem author would write je veux me mettre, instead of je me veux mettre. Je veux is very emphatic, often having the full force of a command ; as, je le veux, it must be done, I insist upon it. Je voudrais, the conditional, is the polite form for expressing a wish or désire.

8. Qu'est-ce qu'elle chante, cette physique ? — What sort of stuff does it treat of, that physics ? literally, what nonsense does it talk about 1 This jocuiar use of chanter, which is very common in French, has already bcen noticed, XXL, 14.

9. Les feux volants. — Ignés fatui, will-o'-the-wisps, commonly càMeàfeux follets.

10. Les éclairs, le tonnerre, la foudre. — Lightning, thunder, thunder-bolts.