à souhait, exactly as you could wish

1. 28. ne sent pas son parvenu d'une lieue, does not show clearly his humble origin. Parvenu, a man of modest circumstances become rich ; sentir, figuratively, to smack of, look hke.

Page 54. 1. 34. tambour, embroidery frame over which a pièce of cloth is stretched as tight as the parchment on a drum.

Page 55. 1. 7. les diablotins à ressort, jacks-in-the-box.

Page 57. 1. 4. les cabarets et les tripots, taverns and gamblingdens.

1. 11. le genièvre, gin, a spirit distilled from Juniper berries. The French genévrier means juniper-tree.

1. 38. se donner un maintien, to maintain her bearing (so as not to look awkward).

Page 62. 1. 2. Rien qu'à leur façon de saluer, on pressent leur haute origine, one feels intuitively their noble birth merely by the way they bow.

Page 63. 1. 4. je leur en sais gré, I am very grateful to them. Gré, from Latin gratum, agreeable, pleasing. Cf. La Fontaine, Fables, vii. 5 :

La belle se sut gré de tous ces sentiments : L'âge la fit déchoir : adieu tous les amants.

I. 37. je ferai face à, I shall be able to cope with, to meet.

Page 65. \. 1. la statue de Memnon. Memnon, son of Aurora, was killed in the Trojan War. The Ethiopians or Egyptians, over whom he had reigned, erected a statue to him which sent forth melodious sounds when the rays of the sun fell on it at dawn.

1. 5. le poème de Virgile. Virgil left instructions in his will that Varus and Tucca, his executors, were to burn his poem, the Aeneid ; the will, however, was set aside by command of the Emperor Augustus.

1. 29. Je n'y suis pour personne, I am not at home to anybody.

Page 66. 1. 5. Le père de feu le comte, the father of the late count. Note position of defînite article after feu.

Page 67. 1. 13. litige, légal dispute.

Page 68. 1. 17. Il faut hurler avec les loups, in Rome one must do as the Romans do.

Page 71. 1. 10. les pièces du procès, the papers connected with the case.