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191, 1. "O céleste haine," etc. "O celestial hate, How canst thou be appeased? O human suffering, Who can cure thee? My pain is so heavy I wish it would kill me-- Such is my desire.

"Heart-broken by thought, Weary of compassion, To hear no more, Nor see, nor feel, I am ready to give My parting breath-- And this is my desire.

"To know nothing more, Nor remember myself-- Never again to rise, Nor go to sleep-- No longer to be, But to have done-- That is my desire!"

191, 23. Fleur de Blé--Corn-flower.

192, 31. "Vous allez à Blankenberghe, mossiê?"--"You go to Blankenberghe, sah?"

193, 1. "Je souis bienn content--nous ferons route ensiemblè!" (je suis bien content--nous ferons route ensemble)--"I am fery glad--ve will make ze journey togezzar!"

193, 5. ragazza--girl.

193, 7. "un' prodige, mossié--un' fenomeno!"--"a prodigy, sah--a phenomenon!"

193, 24. Robert, toi que j'aime--Robert, thou whom I love.

193, 29. "Ma vous aussi, vous êtes mousicien--jé vois ça par la Votre figoure!" (Mais vous aussi vous etes musicien--je vois ça par votre figure!)--"But you also, you are a moosician--I see zat by your face!"

194, 4. elle et moi--she and I.

194, 5. bon marché--cheap.

194, 34. en famille--at home.

195, 7. "Jé vais vous canter couelquê cose (Je vais vous chanter quelque-chose)--una piccola cosa da niente!--vous comprenez l'Italien?"--"I vill sing to you somezing--a leetle zing of nozzing!--you understand ze Italian?"

195, 12. je les adore--I adore them.

195, 16. "Il vero amore"--"True Love."

195, 17. "E la mio amor è andato a soggiornare A Lucca bella--e diventar signore...."

"And my love has gone to dwell In beautiful Lucca--and become a gentleman...."

195, 29. "O mon Fernand!"--"O my Fernand!"

196, 13. "Et vous ne cantez pas ... comme je pourrai." "And you do not sing at all, at all?" "Oh yes, sometimes!" "Sing somezing--I vill accompany you on ze guitar!--do not be afraid--ve vill not be hard on you, she and I--" "Oh--I'll do my best to accompany myself."

196, 21. "Fleur des Alpes"--"Flower of the Alps."

199, 23. médaille de sauvetage--medal for saving life.

200, 2. Je leur veux du bien--I wish them well.

200, 17. Largo al factotum--Make way for the factotum.

201, 24. bis! ter!--a second time! a third time!

201, 26. "Het Roosje uit de Dorne"--"The Rose without the Thorn."

202, 15. sans tambour ni trompette--without drum or trumpet (French leave).

202, 29. Hôtel de Ville--Town-hall.

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