47, 28. "_Ca se dit 'to be able' m'sieur!_"--"They would say 'to be
able,' sir!"
47, 29. "_Mais non, mon ami ... 'je voudrais pouvoir'?_"--"Why no,
my friend--you forget your native language--they would say
'to can'! Now, how would you say, 'I would like to be able'
in English?"
47, 32. _Je dirais_--I would say.
47, 33. "_Comment, encore! petit cancre! allons--tu es Anglais--tu
sais bien que tu dirais!_"--"What, again! Little
dunce--come, you are English--you know very well that you
would say, ..."
48, 1. _A ton tour_--Your turn.
48, 4. "_Oui, toi--comment dirais-tu, 'je pourrais vouloir'?_"--"Yes,
you--how would you say 'I would be able to will'?"
48, 7. "_A la bonne heure! au moins tu sais ta langue, toi!_"--"Well
and good! you at least know your language!"
48, 17. _Ile des Cygnes_--Isle of Swans.
48, 18. _Ecole de Natation_--Swimming-school.
48, 26. _Jardin des Plantes_--The Paris Zoological Gardens.
49, 1. "_Laissons les regrets et les pleurs
A la vieillesse;
Jeunes, il faut cueillir les fleurs
De la jeunesse!_"--Baif.
"Let us leave regrets and tears
To age;
Young, we must gather the flowers
Of youth."
49, 13. _demi-tasse_--small cup of coffee.
49, 14. _chasse-cafe_--drink taken after coffee.
49, 19. _consommateur_--consumer.
49, 21. _Le petit mousse noir_--The little black cabin boy.
49, 24. "_Allons, Josselin, chante-nous ca!_"--"Come, Josselin,
sing that to us!"
50, 7. "_Ecoute-moi bien, ma Fleurette_"--"Listen well to me, my
Fleurette."
"_Amis, la matinee est belle_"--"Friends, the morning is
fine."
50, 12. "_Conduis ta barque avec prudence_," etc.
"Steer thy bark with prudence,
Fisherman! speak low!
Throw thy nets in silence,
Fisherman! speak low!
And through our toils the king
Of the seas can never go."
52, 21. _Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle_--Boulevard of Good News.
52, 24. _galette du gymnase_--flat cake, sold in booths near the
Theatre du Gymnase.
52, 26. _yashmak_--a double veil worn by Turkish women.
52, 34. _queue_--in a line.
53, 5. _chiffonniers_--rag-pickers.
53, 33. _Accelerees (en correspondence avec les Constantines)_--Express
omnibuses (connecting with the Constantine line).
54, 3. _comme on ne l'est plus_--as one is no longer.
54, 6. _distribution de prix_--prize distribution.
54, 19. "_Au clair de la lune!_"--"By the light of the moon!" (A
French nursery rhyme. Readers of "Trilby" will remember her
rendering of this song at her Paris concert.)
54, 20. "_Vivent les vacances-- ...
Gaudio nostro._"
"Hurrah for the vacations--
Come at length;
And the punishments
Will have ended!
The ushers uncivil,
With barbarous countenance,
Will go to the devil,
To our joy."
56, 20. _Musee de Marine_--Marine Museum.
56, 28. _ennui_--tedium.
57, 7. _en rhetorique et en philosophie_--in the rhetoric and
Philosophy classes.
57, 9. _cerf-dix-cors_--ten-branched stags.
57, 13. _ventre a terre_--at full speed.
57, 17. _Toujours au clair de la lune_--Always by moonlight.
58, 2. _hommes du monde_--men of the world (in society).
58, 4. _Splendide mendax_--Nobly false.