je ne m'abuse pas sur . . , ' I do not delude myself

about , . , ' ' I am fuUy aware of , . ' 29. j'en entends de belles! cf. note on p. 97, 1. 5. , , 30. c'est à qui donnera son coup de langue, ' they ail vie in abusing it. '

134. 4. on s'y prend : distinguish between s'y prendre and s en

prendre à, both already met with before. 29. à vous entendre : see note on p. 40, 1. 18.

135. 9. vienne le printemps : nQ2i\.er ihan qtie le printemps vienne.

,, 22. èi la tribune, ' in Parliament. ' Cf. V éloquence de la tribune, ' parliamentary éloquence. ' 31. marotte, 'hobby,' 'whirn,' formerly 'doU,' ' plaything,' 'fool's bauble,' comes from the proper name Marie. So does marionîiette, originally a small figure of the Virgin Mary.

136. 13. roturier, ' plebeian,' ' commoner,' from roture (Lat.

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ruptura), vvhich in the Middle Ages first meant ' a cleared plot of ground,' then ' land subjected to certain dues.'

136. 29. vous avez passé un marché, ' you have entered into a

bargain.' Note —

avoir bon marché de, ' to easily get over, ' ' to manage easily. '

faire bon marché de, ' to think little of, ' ' to make free with. '

137. 9. la famille royale venait d'être cruellement éprouvée,

viz. by the death of the king's sister, Princess Adelaide of Orléans, to whom Louis-Philippe was deeply attached, and who had great influence over him.

17. naguère, 'lately, ' from ne, avoir, a.nd gzière, lit. ' not much

ago,' was fornierly wrltten in three words, na guère, n avait guère.

18. plus de fêtes: like personne, rien, jamais, guère, aucun,

which are ail etymologically affirmative, plus without ne may have a négative meaning when the verb is understood. 22. délices: this noun, like amour and orgue, is masculine in the singular and féminine in the plural. Délice corresponds to Lat. delicium, délices to Lat. delicias.