308, 30. _prosit omen_--may the omen be propitious.
309, 5. _prima donna assoluta_--the absolute first lady. (Grand
Opera, the "leading lady.")
310, 32. _gringalet-jocrisse_--an effeminate fellow.
312, 3. _faire la popotte ensemble au coin du feu; c'est le ciel_--to
potter round the fire together; that is heaven.
312, 29. _Ausstellung_--exhibition.
314, 8. _loch_--a medicine of the consistence of honey, taken by
licking or sucking.
318, 10. "_Et voila comment ca s'est passe_"--"And that's how it
happened."
320, 14. _et plus royaliste que le Roi_--and more of a royalist than
the King.
321, 13. _cru_--growth.
323, 32. _L'amitie est l'amour sans ailes_--Friendship is love
without wings.
325, 9. _En veux-tu? en voila!_--Do you want some? here it is!
327, 10. _kudos_--glory.
328, 9. _Dis-moi qui tu hantes, je te dirai ce que tu es_--Tell me
who are your friends, and I will tell you what you are.
331, 20. _si le coeur t'en dit_--if your heart prompts you.
335, 5. _esprit de corps_--brotherhood.
335, 8. _Noblesse oblige_--Nobility imposes the obligation of
nobleness.
336, 15. _betise pure et simple_--downright folly.
337, 15. _Je suis au-dessus de mes affaires_--I am above my
business.
338, 11. _Maman-belle-mere_--Mama-mother-in-law.
338, 30. _vous plaisantez, mon ami; un amateur comme moi_--you are
joking, my friend; an amateur like myself.
338, 31. _Quis custodiet (ipsos custodes)?_--Who shall guard the
guards themselves?
339, 2. _monsieur anglais, qui avait mal aux yeux_--English
gentleman, who had something the matter with his eyes.
340, 5. _La belle dame sans merci_--The fair lady merciless.
342, 4. _de par le monde_--in society.
342, 18. _je tacherai de ne pas en abuser trop!_--I will try not to
take too much of it!
344, 15. _le dernier des Abencerrages_--the last of the
Abencerrages. (The title of a story by Chateaubriand.)
347, 24. _a mon insu_--unknown to me.
354, 11. _On a les defauts de ses qualites_--One has the faults of
one's virtues.
354, 15. _joliment degourdie_--finely sharpened.
358, 10. _La quatrieme Dimension_--The Fourth Dimension.
360, 25. _nous avons eu la main heureuse_--we have been fortunate.
360, 28. _smalah_--encampment of an Arab chieftain.
363, 19. _Je suis homme d'affaires_--I am a man of business.
373, 28. _un conte a dormir debout_--a story to bore one to sleep.
374, 23. _Ou avions-nous donc la tete et les yeux?_--What were we
doing with our minds and eyes?
377, 1. "_Cara deum soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum_"--"The dear
offspring of God, the increase of Jove."
378, 22. _Tous les genres sont bons, hormis le genre ennuyeux_--All
kinds are good, except the boring kind.
380, 3. _C'etait un naif, le beau Josselin_--He was ingenuous, the
handsome Josselin.
381, 9. _Arma virumque cano_--Arms and the man I sing.--The first
words of Virgil's _AEneid_.
_Tityre tu patulae (recubans sub tegmine fagi)_--Thou,
Tityrus, reclining beneath the shade of a spreading
beech.--The first line of the first _Eclogue_ of Virgil.
_Maecenas atavis (edite regibus)_--Maecenas descended from
royal ancestors.--Horace, _Odes_, 1, 1, l.
381, 10. [Greek: Menin aeide]--Sing the wrath.--The first words of
Homer's _Iliad_.
381, 21. _Debats--Le Journal des Debats_,--a Parisian literary
newspaper.
386, 3. _sommite litteraire_--literary pinnacle.
386, 16. _Rouillon Duval_--a class of cheap restaurants in Paris.
386, 30. _Etoiles Mortes_--Dead Stars.
388, 5. _la coupe_--the cutwater.
388, 11. _a la hussarde_--head first.
389, 2. _la tres-sage Heloise_--the most learned Heloise. (Another
of the ladies mentioned in Villon's "Ballade of the Ladies
of Olden Time." See note to page 24, line 30.)
389, 5. _nous allons arranger tout ca_--we'll arrange all that.
389, 20. _C'est la chastete meme, mais ce n'est pas Dejanire_--It is
chastity itself, but it is not Dejanire.
390, 20. _tres elegante_--very elegant.
390, 22. _d'un noir de jais, d'une blancheur de lis_--jet black,
lily white.
391, 1. _ah, mon Dieu, la Diane chasseresse, la Sapho de
Pradier!_--ah, My God, Diana the huntress, Pradier's
Sappho!
391, 8. _un vrai type de colosse bon enfant, d'une tenue
irreprochable_--a perfect image of a good-natured colossus,
of irreproachable bearing.
391, 15. _tartines_--slices of bread and butter.
391, 17. _une vraie menagerie_--a perfect menagerie.
392, 7. _belle chatelaine_--beautiful chatelaine.
393, 1. _gazebo_--summer-house.
393, 18. _le que retranche_--name given in some French-Latin
grammars to the Latin form which expresses by the
infinitive verb and the accusative noun what in French is
expressed by "que" between two verbs.
394, 32. _alma mater dolorosa_--the tender and sorrowful mother.
394, 33. _maratre au coeur de pierre_--stony-hearted mother.
396, 19. _Tendenz novels_--novels with a purpose.
396, 28. _nouvelle-riche_--newly rich.
404, 11. _on y est tres bien_--one is very well there.
406, 26. "_Il est dix heures_" etc.--See note to page 254, line 21.
406, 30. _vilain mangeur de coeurs que vous etes_--wretched eater of
hearts that you are.
407, 30. _Un vrai petit St. Jean! il nous portera bonheur, bien
sur_--A perfect little St. John! he will bring us good
luck, for sure.
408, 27. _nous savons notre orthographie en musique la bas_--we know
our musical a b c's over there.
412, 8. _in-medio-tutissimus (ibis)_--You will go safest in the
middle.
412, 20. _diablement bien conserve_--deucedly well preserved.
413, 11. _O me fortunatum, mea si bona norim!_--O happy me, had I
known my own blessings!