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[Footnote 108: #à en être#, _have a part in it_.]
[Footnote 109: #Toujours du roman#, _You are always a little
romantic_ in your ideas.]
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[Footnote 110: #m'en défendre#, _help it_.]
[Footnote 111: #Qu' ... belle#, _How beautiful_. Though this use of
_que_ is very common, it often puzzles beginners.]
[Footnote 112: #vienne la sentence#, _let the sentence come_.
Optative.]
[Footnote 113: #madrigaux#, _pretty speeches_; properly "madrigals,"
or love-songs, in the artificial pastoral manner. Originally a form of
musical composition.]
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[Footnote 114: #désintéressement#, _unselfish devotion_. This speech
is a good example of what the French call _blague_,--a sort of
light-hearted mockery of moral ideals. See my note to "Le Gendre de
monsieur Poirier," p. 5, note 7.]
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[Footnote 115: #original#, _queer_, "a strange coincidence." Not
"original" (_originel_), Cp. p. 34, note 2.]