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Page 489. — 1. just as it happens. 2. I wash my hands of it; i. e. I am not concerned in it. 3. let it be as it may, I shaU not care. 4. peace-officer of the ward, quartier {de la ville).

Page 490. — 1. why does he take into his head ? 2. folding-chair.

Page 494. — 1. to physic. 2. would be very well content vnxh her. 3. shoulder-blade. 4. midrif {diaphragme, muscle très-large et fort mince, situé à la base de la poitrine, qu'il sépare d'avec l'abdomen).

5. this indeed is the cause why your daughter is dumb. Voilà ce qut fait que votre fille est muette: this phrase has become a proverbial expression, and is applied to unintelligible and absurd arguments. 6. would that I had such a well-hung tongue !

Page 498. — 1. troublesome business. 2. attempt upon my freedom. 3. honesty. 4. safeguard. 5. likely to be so. 6. who bave contributed to the Elégant èxtracts. 7. infinitely obliged. 8. dabble in it. 9. supremely fine.

Page 501. — 1. my dear. 2. attendance at court. 3. are notioferior to me. 4. tendemess. 5. by a grenade.

Pagb 510. — 1. cart-!oads. 2. flower-beds.

Pagb 511. — 1. ' ready-made.' cracher, te spit.

Page 513. — 1. still-born. 2. non-suited. 3. in a cold perspiration. 4. with ail their raight. 5. puffed iip. 6. milled or edged in coinage. 7. blot. 8. I require that it be taken as évidence. 9. drams. 10. woiild be contradictory.

Page 518. — 1. penny-a-liners {hère, a poor or wretched fellow).

Page 524. — 1. crusted, ' absorbed.' 2. bailiwick.

Page 530. — 1. he is a wag. 2. squinting. 3. formerly, t. e. before the révolution.

Page 533. — 1. it is just the same.

Page 540. — 1. stole. a long vest vporn by certain dignitaries.