#Page 13.# [Footnote 13: #se donner de l'importance#, _put on
airs_. She affects to attribute Charles's manner to the democratic
tendencies of the age.]
[Footnote 14: #tout à l'heure#, _by and by_, but also "just now."]
[Footnote 15: #courrier#, _mail_, here.]
#Page 5.#
[Footnote 16: #coup de tête#, _piece of rashness_.]
[Footnote 17: #Mon dieu#. Wherever _Dieu_ carries any suggestion of
deity, it will be printed with a capital. Where, as here, it corresponds
to "Dear me," "Oh dear," and the like, I have thought it more reverent
to print with _d_.]
#Page 6.#
[Footnote 18: #de qui tenir#, a parent _from whom to inherit it_.]
[Footnote 19: See p. 2, note 4.]
[Footnote 20: #manqué chavirer# (_capsize_), for the more usual
_manqué de chavirer_.]
[Footnote 21: #fête#, not "birthday" as with us, but _baptismal day_,
or day of her patron saint.]
[Footnote 22: #vous ira#, _will become you_.]
#Page 7.#
[Footnote 23: #vous#, _on you_. A colloquial use.]
[Footnote 24: #à vous toute seule#, i.e., without the rejuvenating
effect of my company. For the feminine ending of the adverb _toute_ see
any grammar.]
[Footnote 25: _I have no skill in that_. Ingenuously.]
[Footnote 26: _One really cannot be more considerate_, #pas# is
emphatic.]
#Page 8.#
[Footnote 27: #petite marquise!# _you little aristocrat!_]
[Footnote 28: #s'il est gai#, _isn't he light-hearted?_ or, _how
light-hearted he is!_]
[Footnote 29: #Cimarosa# (1740-1801), Italian composer, noted for the
graceful charm of his vocal music, especially in light opera.]
#Page 9.#
[Footnote 30: #bien né#, _of noble birth_, of aristocratic breeding.]
[Footnote 31: #bien de sa personne#, _pleasing in his appearance._]
[Footnote 32: #bonne compagnie#, _good breeding_, good society.]
[Footnote 33: #me mettent hors de moi#, _exasperate me_.]
[Footnote 34: #nous déconsidère#, _is humiliating_ or _derogatory to
us_.]