Part 117

335, 5. esprit de corps--brotherhood.

335, 8. Noblesse oblige--Nobility imposes the obligation of nobleness.

336, 15. bêtise pure et simple--downright folly.

337, 15. Je suis au-dessus de mes affaires--I am above my business.

338, 11. Maman-belle-mère--Mama-mother-in-law.

338, 30. vous plaisantez, mon ami; un amateur comme moi--you are joking, my friend; an amateur like myself.

338, 31. Quis custodiet (ipsos custodes)?--Who shall guard the guards themselves?

339, 2. monsieur anglais, qui avait mal aux yeux--English gentleman, who had something the matter with his eyes.

340, 5. La belle dame sans merci--The fair lady merciless.

342, 4. de par le monde--in society.

342, 18. je tâcherai de ne pas en abuser trop!--I will try not to take too much of it!

344, 15. le dernier des Abencerrages--the last of the Abencerrages. (The title of a story by Châteaubriand.)

347, 24. à mon insu--unknown to me.

354, 11. On a les défauts de ses qualités--One has the faults of one's virtues.

354, 15. joliment dégourdie--finely sharpened.

358, 10. La quatrième Dimension--The Fourth Dimension.

360, 25. nous avons eu la main heureuse--we have been fortunate.

360, 28. smalah--encampment of an Arab chieftain.

363, 19. Je suis homme d'affaires--I am a man of business.

373, 28. un conte à dormir debout--a story to bore one to sleep.

374, 23. Ou avions-nous donc la tête et les yeux?--What were we doing with our minds and eyes?

377, 1. "Cara deúm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum"--"The dear offspring of God, the increase of Jove."

378, 22. Tous les genres sont bons, hormis le genre ennuyeux--All kinds are good, except the boring kind.

380, 3. C'était un naïf, le beau Josselin--He was ingenuous, the handsome Josselin.

381, 9. Arma virumque cano--Arms and the man I sing.--The first words of Virgil's Æneid. Tityre tu patulæ (recubans sub tegmine fagi)--Thou, Tityrus, reclining beneath the shade of a spreading beech.--The first line of the first Eclogue of Virgil. Mæcenas atavis (edite regibus)--Mæcenas descended from royal ancestors.--Horace, Odes, 1, 1, l.

381, 10. [Greek: Mênin aeide]--Sing the wrath.--The first words of Homer's Iliad.

381, 21. Débats--Le Journal des Débats,--a Parisian literary newspaper.

386, 3. sommité littéraire--literary pinnacle.