[34] _Dauphin_ in the original.
[35] In the _Lady's Dictionary_, 1694, we find a palatine "is
that which used to be called a sable tippet; but that name is changed
to one that is supposed to be finer, because newer, and _à la mode de
France_."
[36] The Marmot of the Alps (_Aretomys_--literally
"Bear-rat"), a large mountain-rat, more than a foot long, with a body
shaped something like a bear.
[37] See Appendix.
[38] _Camion_ signifies in French what we call a minikin-pin.
[39] Melusine is the heroine of a story as old as the
fourteenth century, and on which some portion of "La Princesse Camion"
appears to have been founded (_Vide_ Appendix). Brantôme says she
haunts the castle of Lusignan, where she announces by _loud shrieks_
any disaster that is to befal the French monarchy. This legend gave
rise to the expression of "Cris de Melusine."
[40] _Lit d'ange_--a bed with curtains suspended over it by a
ring or pole.