111, 5. au piquet pour une heure--in the corner for an hour. a la retenue--kept in.
111, 6. privé de bain--not to go swimming. consigné dimanche prochain--kept in next Sunday.
111, 9. de mortibus nil desperandum--an incorrect version of de mortuis nil nisi bonum: of the dead nothing but good.
111, 27. avec des gens du monde--with people in society.
111, 34. et, ma foi, le sort a favorisé M. le Marquis--and, in faith, fortune favored M. le Marquis.
112, 9. vous êtes un paltoquet et un rustre--you are a clown and a boor.
112, 18. classe de géographie ancienne--class of ancient geography.
112, 25. "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes!"--"I fear the Greeks even when they bear gifts!"
114, 3. "Le troisième coup fait feu, vous savez"--"The third blow strikes fire, you know."
114, 23. tisanes--infusions.
114, 31. "C'est moi qui voudrais ... comme il est poli"--"It's myself that would like to have the mumps here. I should delay my convalescence as much as possible!" "How well your uncle knows French, and how polite he is!"
116, 13. Nous avons tous passé par là--We have all been through it.
116, 33. "Te rappelles-tu ... du père Jaurion?"--"Do you recall Berquin's new coat and his high-hat?" "Do you remember father Jaurion's old angora cat?"
118, 7. "Paille à Dine," etc., is literally: "Straw for Dine--straw for Chine-- Straw for Suzette and Martine-- Good bed for the Dumaine!"
119, 1. "Pourquoi, m'sieur?" "Parce que ça me plaît!" "What for, sir?" "Because it pleases me!"
119, 18. un point, etc.--a period--semi-colon--colon--exclamation --inverted commas--begin a parenthesis.
119, 31. "Te rappelles-tu cette omelette?"--"Do you remember that omelette?"
120, 1. version écrite--written version.
120, 15. que malheur!--what a misfortune!
120, 19. "Ça pue l'injustice, ici!"--"It stinks of injustice, here!"
120, 25. "Mille francs par an! ç'est le Pactole!"--"A thousand francs a year! it is a Pactolus!"
122, 7. "Je t'en prie, mon garçon!"--"I pray you, my boy!"
123, 24. La chasse aux souvenirs d'enfance!--Hunting remembrances of childhood!
124, 3. "Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées," etc. "I will walk with my eyes fixed on my thoughts, Seeing nothing outside, without hearing a sound-- By myself, unknown, with bowed back and hands crossed: Sad--and the day will for me be as night."
125, 4. beau comme le jour--beautiful as day.
125, 6. la rossignolle--the nightingale (feminine.)
125, 15. "A Saint-Blaize, à la Zuecca" etc. "At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ... You were, you were very well! At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ... We were, we were happy there! But to think of it again Will you ever care? Will you think of it again? Will you come once more? At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ... To live there and to die!"
125, 32. fête de St.-Cloud--festival of St. Cloud.
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