sans indiscrétion, if it is not impertinent to ask

Page 116. — I. à dormir debout, (stupid enough) to make you go to sleep standing.

p. 117-127] NOTES I43

Page 117. — I. Rodrigue» the hero of Coraeille's Le Cid,

Page 118. — I. hussard, hussar, soldiers noted for their daring and for their rough manners. The word is Hungarian. 2. de ce temp8-lày in this weather.

Page lao. — i. plus banal qu'un vieux couplet de vaudeville, more stupid than an old vaudeville song,

2. auteurs siffles, authors whose works hâve been hissed. Musset himself had had this expérience.

3. le Grand Turc, a more or less indefinite personage, introduced, for instance, by Molière in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

Page 131. — I. se rabat sur l'amitié, falls hack upon friendship,

2. sucreries, sweet sayings, compliments, dealt in by the Society men whom the Marquise calls confiseurs déguisés (page 114).

Page 122. — I. capucins de cartes, hent playing-cards standing in a row, like a procession of monks; when the first card is pushedy the whole line falls.

2. pastorales, complimentary speeches, such as are conventional in pastoral drama.

Page 123. — I. d'où revenez-vous? where hâve y ou been, what expériences hâve y ou hadf je reviens de loin, / hâve had much expérience. Oui, de nourrice, yes, as much as a newlyweaned child, i.e., very little. Cf. page 10, note 2.

Page 126. — I. le beau corps trouvé à Milo, the well-known Greek statue called the Venus of Milo, in the Louvre. Milo or Melos is an island south-east of Greece.