fuyait, avoided or shunned

Page 4. 1. 10. J'en demande pardon au balcon de Juliette, 'with many apologies to Juliet's balcony'. Référence to the balcony scène in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Page 7. 1. 13. il eut beau, <kc. : it was ail very fine for him to search his memory,i.e. itwas no use his searching. The origin of this use of beau is obscure. Cf. German use olgut: ' erhat gut sagen. '

1. 36. Ithaque devant Ulysse, référence to the wandering and adventures of Ulysses on his way home to lus wife Pénélope, in the isle of Ithaca, after the Trojan War.

Page 8. 1. 10. à son insu, unknown to him. Insu — in (négative particle) + su, past participle of savoir.

1. 27. intendant, steward, agent, from Latin intendens, one who watches over.

Page 9. 1. 11. Kreutzer, an old and obsolète German copper coin, of varions values, but generally about Id. The kreuzer was first coined in the Tyrol in the thirteenth century, and was marked wdth a cross (German Kreuz, a cross), hence the name.

1. 13. Thaler, an obsolète German coin worth 3 marka, or about 3 shillings. The word cornes from Joachimsthal, a valley in Bohemia near the silver mines, where the coins were originally made. Cf. dollar.

1. 37. mettait . . . sur les dents, tired out, knocked up. Cf. Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, III. iii. 27 : ' Nicole : La pauvre Françoise est presque sur les dents, à frotter les planchers.'

Page 10. 1. 29. être sur les lieux pour veiller au grain, to be on the spot, to keep a sharp look-out ; lit. to watch over the grain.