Chez lui. — In his room

12. Je veux . . . visite de voisinage. — I want to be the first to pay him a neighborly call.

13. Aussi j'avais mis une sourdine a ma chanterelle. — So I had put a check upon my singing. Sourdine, in musical instruments, is something that checks the sound. Chanterelle is, literally, the first or treble string. This word occurs in several proverbial expressions ; as, je vous ferai baisser la clvanterelle, Fil make you lower your tone.