Part 107

99, 11. chefs-d'oeuvre--masterpieces.

99, 24. chanson--song.

99, 27. "C'était un Capucin," etc. "It was a Capuchin, oh yes, a Capuchin father, Who confessed three girls-- Itou, itou, itou, là là là! Who confessed three girls At the bottom of his garden-- Oh yes-- At the bottom of his garden! He said to the youngest-- Itou, itou, itou, là là là! He said to the youngest ... 'You will come back to-morrow.'"

100, 7. un écho du temps passé--an echo of the olden times.

100, 11. esprit Gaulois--old French wit.

100, 20. "Sur votre parole d'honneur, avez-vous chanté?"--"On your word of honor, have you sung?"

100, 22. "Non, m'sieur!"--"No, sir!"

100, 32. "Oui, m'sieur!"--"Yes, sir."

101, 5. "Vous êtes tous consignés!"--"You are all kept in!"

101, 10. de service--on duty.

101, 19. "Au moins vous avez du coeur ... sale histoire de Capucin!"--"You at least have spirit. Promise me that you will not again sing that dirty story about the Capuchin!"

102, 24. "Stabat mater," etc. "By the cross, sad vigil keeping, Stood the mournful mother weeping, While on it the Saviour hung" ...

102, 30. "Ah! ma chère Mamzelle Marceline!... Et une boussole dans l'estomac!"--"Ah! my dear Miss Marceline, if they were only all like that little Josselin! things would go as if they were on wheels! That English youngster is as innocent as a young calf! He has God in his heart." "And a compass in his stomach!"

104, 29. "Ah! mon cher!... Chantez-moi ça encore une fois!"--"Ah! my dear! what wouldn't I give to see the return of a whaler at Whitby! What a 'marine' that would make! eh? with the high cliff and the nice little church on top, near the old abbey--and the red smoking roofs, and the three stone piers, and the old drawbridge--and all that swarm of watermen with their wives and children--and those fine girls who are waiting for the return of the loved one! By Jove! to think that you have seen all that, you who are not yet sixteen ... what luck! ... say--what does that really mean?--that

'Weel may the keel row!' Sing that to me once again!"

105, 21. "Ah! vous verrez ... vous y êtes, en plein!"--"Ah! you will see, during the Easter holidays I will make such a fine picture of all that! with the evening mist that gathers, you know--and the setting sun, and the rising tide, and the moon coming up on the horizon, and the sea-mews and the gulls, and the far-off heaths, and your grandfather's lordly old manor; that's it, isn't it?"

"Yes, yes, Mr. Bonzig--you are right in it."

106, 29. "C'était dans la nuit brune," etc. "'Twas in the dusky night On the yellowed steeple, The moon, Like a dot on an i!"

108, 17. en flagrant délit--in the very act.

109, 4. la perfide Albion--perfidious Albion.

109, 8. "À bas Dumollard!"--"Down with Dumollard!"

109, 17. l'étude entière--the whole school.

109, 19. "Est-ce toi?"--"Is it thou?"

109, 23. "Non, m'sieur, ce n'est pas moi!"--"No, sir, it isn't me!"

110, 17. "Parce qu'il aime les Anglais, ma foi--affaire de goût!"--"Because he likes the English, in faith--a matter of taste!"

110, 19. "Ma foi, il n'a pas tort!"--"In faith, he's not wrong!"

110, 24. "Non! jamais en France, Jamais Anglais ne régnera!"

"No! never in France, Never shall Englishman reign!"