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247, 9. Les Noces de Jeannette--Jeannette's Wedding.

247, 13. "Cours, mon aiguille ... de notre peine!" "Run, my needle, through the wool! Do not break off in my hand; For to-morrow with good kisses Jean will pay us for our trouble!"

249, 3. "Hélas! mon jeune ami!"--"Alas! my young friend!"

252, 1. Sursum cor! sursum corda!--Lift up your heart! Lift up Your hearts!

252, 11. coupe-choux--cabbage-cutter.

252, 13. "Ça ne vous regarde pas, ... ou je vous ..."--"It's none of your business, you know! take yourselves off at once, or I'll ..."

252, 19. "Non--c'est moi qui regarde, savez-vous!"--"No--it is I who am looking, you know!"

252, 20. "Qu'est-ce que vous regardez?... Vous ne voulez pas vous en aller?" "What are you looking at?" "I am looking at the moon and the stars. I am looking at the comet!" "Will you take yourself off at once?" "Some other time!" "Take yourself off, I tell you!" "The day after to-morrow!" "You ... will ... not ... take ... yourself ... off?"

252, 32. "Non, sacré petit ... restez où vous êtes!" "No, you confounded little devil's gravel-pusher!" "All right, stay where you are!"

254, 16. "... du sommeil au songe-- Du songe à la mort."

"... from sleep to dream-- From dream to death."

254, 21. "Il est dix heures ... dans votre chambre?"--"It's ten o'clock, you know? Will you have your coffee in your room?"

255, 14. ça date de loin, mon pauvre ami--it goes a long way back, my poor friend.

256, 8. punctum coecum--blind spot.

257, 27. mon beau somnambule--my handsome somnambulist.

257, 33. On ne sait pas ce qui peut arriver--One never knows what may happen.

258, 17. tiens--look.

262, 10. sans peur et sans reproche--without fear and without reproach.

262, 15. "Ça s'appelle le point caché--c'est une portion de la rétine avec laquelle on ne peut pas voir...."--"It is called the blind spot--it is a part of the retina with which we cannot see...."

263, 13. c'est toujours ça--that's always the way.

263, 23. plus que coquette--more than coquettish.

269, 8. père et mère--father and mother.

271, 31. more Latino--in the Latin manner.

272, 12. pictor ignotus--the unknown painter.

273, 6. "Que me voilà.... Ôte ton chapeau!" "How happy I am, my little Barty--and you? what a pretty town, eh?" "It's heaven, pure and simple--and you are going to teach me German, aren't you, my dear?" "Yes, and we will read Heine together; by the way, look! Do you see the name of the street at the corner? Bolker Strasse! that's where he was born, poor Heine! Take off your hat!"

273, 19. Maitrank--May drink. (An infusion of woodruff in light White wine.)

273, 34. "Johanna, mein Frühstück, bitte!"--"Johanna, my breakfast, please!"

276, 27. la barre de bâtardise--the bar of bastardy.

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