Part 23 (2/2)

31. vous ne serez pas trop mal, 'you will not be too badly off.'

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2. l'etude des pet.i.ts, 'the junior school.' So _l'etude des moyens_ (p. 51 l. 5), 'the middle school.'

3. qu'on mene a la baguette, 'that you can rule with a rod of iron.'

4. mechant. Note-

_un mechant homme_, 'a bad _or_ wicked man.'

_un homme mechant_, 'a mischievous _or_ spiteful man.'

Cf. note, p. 24 l. 23.

6. pere Viot, 'old Viot.'

11. les fonctions d'econome, 'the duties of a bursar.'

15. fee, 'old hag' or 'old witch.'

24. confidences, 'secrets.'

27. parlant haut: see note, p. 17 l. 16.

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6. ce que c'est que de nous, pourtant! 'and yet, what weak creatures we are!'

7. un file de famille en rupture de ban, 'a youth of good family, who had gone the pace a bit'; lit. 'escaped from banishment.'

11. d'un meilleur il, 'more favourably.'

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13. trouble, 'disturbed in mind.' Cf. note, p. 12 l. 30.

15. entre deux grands coups secs frappes, 'between two loud sharp raps.'

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23. ils ne sentaient pas encore le college, 'they were as yet untouched by the moral atmosphere of the school.

Cf. note, p. 17 l. 20.

25. pepialent, 'chirped,' i.e. 'chattered.'

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3. je vous demande! 'just think of it!'

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