Part 118

386, 16. Rouillon Duval--a class of cheap restaurants in Paris.

386, 30. Étoiles Mortes--Dead Stars.

388, 5. la coupe--the cutwater.

388, 11. à la hussarde--head first.

389, 2. la très-sage Héloïse--the most learned Heloise. (Another of the ladies mentioned in Villon's "Ballade of the Ladies of Olden Time." See note to page 24, line 30.)

389, 5. nous allons arranger tout ça--we'll arrange all that.

389, 20. C'est la chasteté même, mais ce n'est pas Dèjanire--It is chastity itself, but it is not Dèjanire.

390, 20. très élégante--very elegant.

390, 22. d'un noir de jais, d'une blancheur de lis--jet black, lily white.

391, 1. ah, mon Dieu, la Diane chasseresse, la Sapho de Pradier!--ah, My God, Diana the huntress, Pradier's Sappho!

391, 8. un vrai type de colosse bon enfant, d'une tenue irréprochable--a perfect image of a good-natured colossus, of irreproachable bearing.

391, 15. tartines--slices of bread and butter.

391, 17. une vraie ménagerie--a perfect menagerie.

392, 7. belle châtelaine--beautiful chatelaine.

393, 1. gazebo--summer-house.

393, 18. le que retranché--name given in some French-Latin grammars to the Latin form which expresses by the infinitive verb and the accusative noun what in French is expressed by "que" between two verbs.

394, 32. alma mater dolorosa--the tender and sorrowful mother.

394, 33. marâtre au coeur de pierre--stony-hearted mother.

396, 19. Tendenz novels--novels with a purpose.

396, 28. nouvelle-riche--newly rich.

404, 11. on y est très bien--one is very well there.

406, 26. "Il est dix heures" etc.--See note to page 254, line 21.

406, 30. vilain mangeur de coeurs que vous êtes--wretched eater of hearts that you are.

407, 30. Un vrai petit St. Jean! il nous portera bonheur, bien sûr--A perfect little St. John! he will bring us good luck, for sure.

408, 27. nous savons notre orthographie en musique là bas--we know our musical a b c's over there.

412, 8. in-medio-tutissimus (ibis)--You will go safest in the middle.

412, 20. diablement bien conservé--deucedly well preserved.

413, 11. O me fortunatum, mea si bona nôrim!--O happy me, had I known my own blessings!