101, 10. _de service_--on duty.
101, 19. "_Au moins vous avez du coeur ... sale histoire de
Capucin!_"--"You at least have spirit. Promise me that you
will not again sing that dirty story about the Capuchin!"
102, 24. "_Stabat mater_," etc.
"By the cross, sad vigil keeping,
Stood the mournful mother weeping,
While on it the Saviour hung" ...
102, 30. "_Ah! ma chere Mamzelle Marceline!... Et une boussole dans
l'estomac!_"--"Ah! my dear Miss Marceline, if they were
only all like that little Josselin! things would go as if
they were on wheels! That English youngster is as innocent
as a young calf! He has God in his heart." "And a compass
in his stomach!"
104, 29. "_Ah! mon cher!... Chantez-moi ca encore une fois!_"--"Ah!
my dear! what wouldn't I give to see the return of a whaler
at Whitby! What a 'marine' that would make! eh? with the
high cliff and the nice little church on top, near the old
abbey--and the red smoking roofs, and the three stone
piers, and the old drawbridge--and all that swarm of
watermen with their wives and children--and those fine
girls who are waiting for the return of the loved one! By
Jove! to think that you have seen all that, you who are not
yet sixteen ... what luck! ... say--what does that really
mean?--that
'Weel may the keel row!'
Sing that to me once again!"
105, 21. "_Ah! vous verrez ... vous y etes, en plein!_"--"Ah! you
will see, during the Easter holidays I will make such a
fine picture of all that! with the evening mist that
gathers, you know--and the setting sun, and the rising
tide, and the moon coming up on the horizon, and the
sea-mews and the gulls, and the far-off heaths, and your
grandfather's lordly old manor; that's it, isn't it?"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Bonzig--you are right in it."
106, 29. "_C'etait dans la nuit brune_," etc.
"'Twas in the dusky night
On the yellowed steeple,
The moon,
Like a dot on an i!"
108, 17. _en flagrant delit_--in the very act.
109, 4. _la perfide Albion_--perfidious Albion.