Part 27 (2/2)

12. requisitoire, 'indictment.'

21. On, 'Someone.'

22. qu'On se le tint pour dit, 'Someone must bear in mind that . .'

25. riaient sous cape, 'were laughing in their sleeves.'

Cf. _rire dans sa barbe_.

28. injures, 'insults': so _injurieux_, 'insulting.' What is the French for 'injury'?

31. ou aller? 'where could he go?' Interrogative infinitive, often used in deliberative sentences.

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1. ils furent a sec d'eloquence, 'they were hard up for something more to say.'

5. me riaient au nez, 'laughed in my face.'

11. a faire dresser tes cheveux: for this use of it in the sense of _a.s.sez pour_ cf. p. 79 l. 8, _me serrant les poignets a les briser_; p. 84 l. 19, _les autres riaient a se tordre_.

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4. je finis par ne plus m'occuper d'eux, 'after a time I no longer troubled about them'; cf. note, p. 14 l. 29.

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18. maitresse poutre, 'kingpost.'

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12. les enfants auraient . ., que je ne m'en fusse pas apercu, 'if the boys had . . I should not have noticed.'

18. tu ne te doutais pas, hein? 'you had no idea, eh?'

24. M. le cure de Saint-Nizier, 'the vicar of Saint Nizier.'

Note _cure_='parson,' i.e. either the 'vicar' or 'rector'

of a parish, but _vicaire_='curate.'

27. memoires: note _le memoire_, 'memoir,' 'memorandum'; _la memoire_, 'memory.'

30. tout compte fait, 'after reckoning everything up.'

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1. sur mes economies, 'out of my savings.'

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