Part 27 (1/2)

4. litanies, 'long files.'

14. de mon cote, 'for my own part.'

24. cocorico! 'c.o.c.k-a-doodle-doo.'

26. les papiers maches, 'chewed paper pellets.'

30. en desespoir de cause, 'as a last s.h.i.+ft.'

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11. me faisait mauvais accueil, 'always received me coldly.

17. tenait beaucoup a cet eleve, 'thought a great deal of this pupil.'

Note- _il tient de sa mere_, 'he takes after his mother.'

28. j'avais affaire a forte partie, 'I had a difficult customer to deal with.' Note- _avoir affaire de_, 'to have need of.'

_avoir affaire avec_, 'to do business with.'

29. faquin de marquis, 'puppy of a marquis.'

30. en pleine etude: see note, p. 7 l. 3.

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7. je m'engageais dans une mechante affaire, 'I was getting involved in rather a critical business.'

14. il fallait voir de quel air, 'you should have seen the air he put on.'

26. j'eus le geste de le prendre au collet, 'I stretched out my hand as if to seize him by the coat-collar.'

28. miserable, 'wretch.'

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3. pour le coup: see note, p. 2 l. 17.

12. mis a la raison par ce gringalet de pion, 'brought to his senses by this slip of an usher.'

24. troublerent, 'disturbed.' See note, p. 12 l. 30.

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1. j'en serais quitte pour la peur, 'I should get off with a good fright.'

12. j'etais perdu, 'it was all over with me.'

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1. la-dessus le voila parti a . ., 'thereupon he began to . .'