Part 36

119, 31. "Te rappelles-tu cette omelette?"—"Do you remember that omelette?"

120, 1. version écrite—written version.

120, 15. que malheur!—what a misfortune!

120, 19. "Ça pue l'injustice, ici!"—"It stinks of injustice, here!"

120, 25. "Mille francs par an! ç'est le Pactole!"—"A thousand francs a year! it is a Pactolus!"

122, 7. "Je t'en prie, mon garçon!"—"I pray you, my boy!"

123, 24. La chasse aux souvenirs d'enfance!—Hunting remembrances of childhood!

124, 3. "Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées," etc. "I will walk with my eyes fixed on my thoughts, Seeing nothing outside, without hearing a sound— By myself, unknown, with bowed back and hands crossed: Sad—and the day will for me be as night."

125, 4. beau comme le jour—beautiful as day.

125, 6. la rossignolle—the nightingale (feminine.)

125, 15. "A Saint-Blaize, à la Zuecca" etc. "At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ... You were, you were very well! At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ... We were, we were happy there! But to think of it again Will you ever care? Will you think of it again? Will you come once more? At St. Blaize, and at Zuecca ... To live there and to die!"

125, 32. fête de St.-Cloud—festival of St. Cloud.

125, 33. blanchisseuse—laundress.

133, 30. "Roy ne puis, prince ne daigne, Rohan je suis!"—"King I Cannot be, prince I would not be, Rohan I am!"

133, 34. "Rohan ne puis, roi ne daigne. Rien je suis!"—"Rohan I cannot be, king I would not be. Nothing I am!"

135, 10. grandes dames de par le monde—great ladies of the world.

137, 6. "O lachrymarum fons!"—"O font of tears!"

140, 28. Jewess is in French, juive.

141, 10. "Esker voo her jer dwaw lah vee? Ah! kel Bonnure!" Anglo-French for "Est ce que vous que je dois laver. Ah! quel bonheur!"—"Is it that you that I must wash? Ah! What happiness!"

142, 12. Pazienza—Patience.

143, 8. "Ne sulor ultra crepidam!"—"A cobbler should stick to his last!"

145, 1. "La cigale ayant chanté," etc. "The grasshopper, having sung The summer through, Found herself destitute When the north wind came."...

146, 20. "Spretæ injuria formæ"—"The insult to her despised beauty."

146, 31. billets doux—love letters.

152, 8. "La plus forte des forces est un coeur innocent"—"The Strongest of strengths is an innocent heart."

154, 3. "Tiens, tiens!... écoute!"—"There, there! it's deucedly pretty that—listen!"

154, 8. "Mais, nom d'une pipe—elle est divine, cette musique—là!"—"But, by jingo, it's divine, that music!"

155, 26. bourgeois—the middle class.

155, 34. nouveaux riches—newly rich people.

158, 2. "La mia letizia!"—"My Joy!"

160, 17. "Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre," etc. "Brave cavalier, off to the war, What will you do So far from here? Do you not see that the night is dark, And that the world Is only care?"

160, 23. "La Chanson de Barberine"—"The Song of Barberine."

160, 28. cascamèche—nightcap tassel. moutardier du pape—pope's mustardman. tromblon-bolivard—broad-brimmed blunderbuss.

160, 29. vieux coquelicot—old poppy.

160, 31. "Voos ayt oon ôter!" Anglo-French for "Vous êtes un autre!"—"You are another!"

162, 10. C'est toujours comme ça—It's always like that.

163, 17. à bon chat, bon rat—a Roland for an Oliver.

166, 14. poudre insecticide—insect-powder. mort aux punaises—death to the bugs.

166, 22. pensionnat de demoiselles—young ladies' boarding-school.

166, 28. Je connais ça—I know that.

168, 8. eau sucrée—sweetened water.

168, 18. Coeur de Lion—Lion Heart. le Pré aux Clercs—Parson's Green.

169, 17. rapins—art students.

170, 14. "Bonjour, Monsieur Bonzig! comment allez-vous?"—"Good-day, Mr. Bonzig! how do you do?"

170, 17. "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur—mais je n'ai pas l'honneur de vous remettre!"—"Pardon me, sir—but I have not the honor to remember your face!"

170, 19. "Je m'appelle Josselin—de chez Brossard!"—"My name is Josselin—from Brossard's!"

170, 20. "Ah! Mon Dieu, mon cher, mon très-cher!"—"Ah! My God, my dear, my very dear!"

170, 23. "Mais quel bonheur.... Je n'en reviens pas!"—"But what good luck it is to see you again. I think of you so often, and of Whitby! How you have altered! and what a fine-looking fellow you are! who would have recognized you! Lord of Lords—it's a dream! I can't get over it!"

170, 34. "Non, mon cher Josselin"—"No, my dear Josselin."

172, 4. un peintre de marines—a painter of marines.

172, 16. garde champêtre—park-keeper.

172, 27. ministère—public office.

172, 31. "l'heure où le jaune de Naples rentre dans la nature"—"the hour when Naples yellow comes again into nature."

173, 31. bonne friture—good fried fish.

173, 32. fricassée de lapin—rabbit fricasee. pommes sautées—French fried potatoes. soupe aux choux—cabbage soup.

174, 1. café chantant—music-hall. bal de barrière—ball held in the outer districts of Paris, usually composed of the rougher element.

174, 3. bonsoir la compagnie—good-night to the company.

174, 26. prix-fixe—fixed price.

175, 6. aile de poulet—chicken's wing. pêche au vin—peach preserved in wine.

175, 9. entre la poire et le fromage—between pear and cheese.

175, 15. flâning—from flâner, to lounge.

175, 28. "Ma foi, mon cher!"—"My word, my dear!"

176, 3. ma mangeaille—my victuals.

176, 18. Mont de Piété—pawnshop.

176, 24. moult tristement, à l'anglaise—with much sadness, after the English fashion.

177, 12. un jour de séparation, vous comprenez—a day of separation, you understand.

177, 14. à la vinaigrette—with vinegar sauce.

177, 16. nous en ferons l'expérience—we will try it.

177, 19. maillot—bathing-suit. peignoir—wrapper.

177, 21. "Oh! la mer! ... chez Babet!"—"Oh! the sea, the sea! At last I am going to take my header into it—and not later than to-morrow evening.... Till to-morrow, my dear comrade—six o'clock—at Babet's!"

177, 27. piquant sa tête—taking his header.

178, 1. sergent de ville—policeman.

178, 4. "un jour de séparation ... nagerons de conserve"—"a day Of separation! but come also, Josselin—we will take our headers together, and swim in each other's company."

178, 13. "en signe de mon deuil"—"as a token of my mourning."

178, 23. plage—beach.

178, 30. dame de comptoir—the lady at the counter.

178, 33. demi-tasse—small cup of coffee. petit-verre—small glass of brandy.

180, 13. avec tant d'esprit—so wittily.

180, 14. rancune—grudge.

181, 14. bon raconteur—good story-teller.

181, 16. "La plus belle fille ... ce qu'elle a!"—"The fairest girl in the world can give only what she has!"

182, 5. comme tout un chacun sait—as each and every one knows.

182, 24. Tout ça, c'est de l'histoire ancienne—that's all ancient history.

183, 8. "très bel homme ... que joli garçon hein?"—"fine man, Bob; more of the fine man than the handsome fellow, eh?"

183, 12. Mes compliments—My compliments.

183, 19. "Ça y est, alors! ... à ton bonheur!"—"So it's settled, then! I congratulate you beforehand, and I keep my tears for when you have gone. Let us go and dine at Babet's: I long to drink to your welfare!"

184, 1. atelier—art studio.

184, 6. le Beau Josselin—the handsome Josselin.

184, 33. serrement de coeur—heart burning.

185, 22. Marché aux oeufs—Egg Market.

186, 4. "Malines" or "Louvain"—Belgian beers.

186, 25. "Oui; un nommé Valtères"—"Yes; one called Valtères" (French pronunciation of Walters).

186, 28. "Parbleu, ce bon Valtères—je l'connais bien!"—"Zounds, good old Walters—I know him well!"

188, 26. primo tenore—first tenor.

188, 29. Guides—a Belgian cavalry regiment.

188, 32. Cercle Artistique—Art Club.

191, 1. "O céleste haine," etc. "O celestial hate, How canst thou be appeased? O human suffering, Who can cure thee? My pain is so heavy I wish it would kill me— Such is my desire.

"Heart-broken by thought, Weary of compassion, To hear no more, Nor see, nor feel, I am ready to give My parting breath— And this is my desire.

"To know nothing more, Nor remember myself— Never again to rise, Nor go to sleep— No longer to be, But to have done— That is my desire!"

191, 23. Fleur de Blé—Corn-flower.

192, 31. "Vous allez à Blankenberghe, mossiê?"—"You go to Blankenberghe, sah?"

193, 1. "Je souis bienn content—nous ferons route ensiemblè!" (je suis bien content—nous ferons route ensemble)—"I am fery glad—ve will make ze journey togezzar!"

193, 5. ragazza—girl.

193, 7. "un' prodige, mossié—un' fenomeno!"—"a prodigy, sah—a phenomenon!"

193, 24. Robert, toi que j'aime—Robert, thou whom I love.

193, 29. "Ma vous aussi, vous êtes mousicien—jé vois ça par la Votre figoure!" (Mais vous aussi vous etes musicien—je vois ça par votre figure!)—"But you also, you are a moosician—I see zat by your face!"

194, 4. elle et moi—she and I.

194, 5. bon marché—cheap.

194, 34. en famille—at home.

195, 7. "Jé vais vous canter couelquê cose (Je vais vous chanter quelque-chose)—una piccola cosa da niente!—vous comprenez l'Italien?"—"I vill sing to you somezing—a leetle zing of nozzing!—you understand ze Italian?"

195, 12. je les adore—I adore them.

195, 16. "Il vero amore"—"True Love."

195, 17. "E la mio amor è andato a soggiornare A Lucca bella—e diventar signore...."

"And my love has gone to dwell In beautiful Lucca—and become a gentleman...."

195, 29. "O mon Fernand!"—"O my Fernand!"

196, 13. "Et vous ne cantez pas ... comme je pourrai." "And you do not sing at all, at all?" "Oh yes, sometimes!" "Sing somezing—I vill accompany you on ze guitar!—do not be afraid—ve vill not be hard on you, she and I—" "Oh—I'll do my best to accompany myself."

196, 21. "Fleur des Alpes"—"Flower of the Alps."

199, 23. médaille de sauvetage—medal for saving life.

200, 2. Je leur veux du bien—I wish them well.

200, 17. Largo al factotum—Make way for the factotum.

201, 24. bis! ter!—a second time! a third time!

201, 26. "Het Roosje uit de Dorne"—"The Rose without the Thorn."

202, 15. sans tambour ni trompette—without drum or trumpet (French leave).

202, 29. Hôtel de Ville—Town-hall.

203, 4. "Una sera d' amore"—"An Evening of Love."

203, 16. "Guarda che bianca luna"—"Behold the silver moon."

204, 15. boute-en-train—life and soul.

205, 10. "À vous, monsieur de la garde ... tirer les premiers!" "Your turn, gentleman of the guard." "The gentlemen of the guard should always fire the first!"

205, 20. "Je ne tire plus ... main malheureuse un jour!"—"I will fire no more—I am too much afraid that some day my hand may be unfortunate!"

205, 33. "Le cachet ... je lui avais demandé!"—"Mr. Josselin's seal, which I had asked him for!"

206, 4. Salle d'Armes—Fencing-school.

206, 10. des enfantillages—child's play.

206, 15. "Je vous en prie, monsieur de la garde!"—"I pray you, gentleman of the guard!"

206, 17. "Cette fois, alors, nous allons tirer ensemble!"—"This time, then, we will draw together!"

206, 23. maître d'armes—fencing-master.

206, 29. "Vous êtes impayable ... pour la vie"—"You are extraordinary, you know, my dear fellow; you have every talent, and a million in your throat into the bargain! If ever I can do anything for you, you know, always count upon me."

208, 1. "Et plus jamais ... quand vous m'écrirez!"—"And no more empty envelopes when you write to me!"

208, 10. la peau de chagrin—the shagreen skin. (The hero of this story, by Balzac, is given a piece of shagreen, on the condition that all his wishes will be gratified, but that every wish will cause the leather to shrink, and that when it disappears his life will come to an end. Chagrin also means sorrow, so that Barty's retina was indeed "a skin of sorrow," continually shrinking.)

208, 29. "Les misères du jour font le bonheur du lendemain!"—"The misery of to-day is the happiness of to-morrow!"

210, 23. dune—a low sand-hill. (They are to be found all along the Belgian coast.)

214, 22. par—by.

214. 32. dit-on—they say.

216, 22. bien d'accord—of the same mind.

217, 1. née—by birth.

217, 29. moi qui vous parle—I who speak to you.

219, 3. Kermesse—fair.

219, 6. estaminet—a drinking and smoking resort.

219, 10. à la Teniers—after the manner of Teniers, the painter.

219, 34. in secula seculorum!—for ages of ages!

220, 3. Rue des Ursulines Blanches—Street of the White Ursulines.

220, 5. des Soeurs Rédemptoristines—Sisters of the Redemption.

220, 11. Frau—Mrs. (This is German; the Flemish is Juffrow.)

220, 26. "La Cigogne"—"The Stork Inn."

221, 9. salade aux fines herbes—salad made of a mixture of herbs.

222, 28. à fleur de tête—on a level with their heads.

223, 6. savez vous?—do you know?

223, 26. chaussées—roads.

224, 26. Les Maîtres Sonneurs—The Master Ringers. La Mare au Diable—The Devil's Pool.

225, 21. séminaire—clerical seminary.

225, 29. "Mio caro Paolo di Kocco!"—"My dear Paul de Kock!"

225, 32. "Un malheureux" etc. "An unfortunate dressed in black, Who resembled me like a brother." (Du Maurier himself.)

228, 14. mein armer—my poor.

228, 17. Lieber—dear.

229, 5. Bel Mazetto—Beautiful Mazetto.

229, 7. "Ich bin ein lustiger Student, mein Pardy"—"I am a jolly Student, my Barty."

229, 15. Katzenjammer—sore head.

229, 18. Liebe—love.

230, 2. tout le monde—everybody.

231, 18. autrefois—the times of yore.

231, 21. "Oh, non, mon ami"—"Oh, no, my friend."

231, 29. "Petit bonhomme vit encore"—"Good little fellow still alive."

232, 1."Hé quoi! pour des peccadilles," etc. "Eh, what! for peccadilloes To scold those little loves? Women are so pretty, And one does not love forever! Good fellow They call me ... My gayety is my treasure! And the good fellow is still alive— And the good fellow is still alive!"

233, 10. Soupe-au-lait—Milk porridge.

234, 2. muscæ volitantes—(literally) hovering flies.

242, 1. "Mettez-vous au régime des viandes saignantes!"—"Put Yourself on a diet of rare meat!"

242, 4. "Mettez-vous au lait!"—"Take to milk!"

242, 9. désoeuvrement—idleness.

242, 16. "Amour, Amour," etc. "Love, love, when you hold us, Well may we say: 'Prudence, good-bye!'"

244, 1. "Il s'est conduit en homme de coeur!"—"He has behaved like a man of spirit!"

244, 3. "Il s'est conduit en bon gentilhomme"—"He has behaved like a thorough gentleman!"

247, 9. Les Noces de Jeannette—Jeannette's Wedding.

247, 13. "Cours, mon aiguille ... de notre peine!" "Run, my needle, through the wool! Do not break off in my hand; For to-morrow with good kisses Jean will pay us for our trouble!"

249, 3. "Hélas! mon jeune ami!"—"Alas! my young friend!"

252, 1. Sursum cor! sursum corda!—Lift up your heart! Lift up Your hearts!

252, 11. coupe-choux—cabbage-cutter.

252, 13. "Ça ne vous regarde pas, ... ou je vous ..."—"It's none of your business, you know! take yourselves off at once, or I'll ..."

252, 19. "Non—c'est moi qui regarde, savez-vous!"—"No—it is I who am looking, you know!"

252, 20. "Qu'est-ce que vous regardez?... Vous ne voulez pas vous en aller?" "What are you looking at?" "I am looking at the moon and the stars. I am looking at the comet!" "Will you take yourself off at once?" "Some other time!" "Take yourself off, I tell you!" "The day after to-morrow!" "You ... will ... not ... take ... yourself ... off?"

252, 32. "Non, sacré petit ... restez où vous êtes!" "No, you confounded little devil's gravel-pusher!" "All right, stay where you are!"

254, 16. "... du sommeil au songe— Du songe à la mort."

"... from sleep to dream— From dream to death."

254, 21. "Il est dix heures ... dans votre chambre?"—"It's ten o'clock, you know? Will you have your coffee in your room?"

255, 14. ça date de loin, mon pauvre ami—it goes a long way back, my poor friend.

256, 8. punctum coecum—blind spot.

257, 27. mon beau somnambule—my handsome somnambulist.

257, 33. On ne sait pas ce qui peut arriver—One never knows what may happen.

258, 17. tiens—look.

262, 10. sans peur et sans reproche—without fear and without reproach.

262, 15. "Ça s'appelle le point caché—c'est une portion de la rétine avec laquelle on ne peut pas voir...."—"It is called the blind spot—it is a part of the retina with which we cannot see...."

263, 13. c'est toujours ça—that's always the way.

263, 23. plus que coquette—more than coquettish.

269, 8. père et mère—father and mother.

271, 31. more Latino—in the Latin manner.

272, 12. pictor ignotus—the unknown painter.

273, 6. "Que me voilà.... Ôte ton chapeau!" "How happy I am, my little Barty—and you? what a pretty town, eh?" "It's heaven, pure and simple—and you are going to teach me German, aren't you, my dear?" "Yes, and we will read Heine together; by the way, look! Do you see the name of the street at the corner? Bolker Strasse! that's where he was born, poor Heine! Take off your hat!"

273, 19. Maitrank—May drink. (An infusion of woodruff in light White wine.)

273, 34. "Johanna, mein Frühstück, bitte!"—"Johanna, my breakfast, please!"

276, 27. la barre de bâtardise—the bar of bastardy.

279, 15. der schöne—the handsome.

280, 24. Speiserei—eating-house.

283, 5. "ni l'or ni la grandeur ne nous rendent heureux"—"neither gold nor greatness makes us happy."

285, 22. mes premières amours—my first loves.

286, 3. "Petit chagrin ... un soupir!" "Little sorrow of childhood costing a sigh!"

286, 9. Il avait bien raison—He was quite right.

289, 15. rien que ça—nothing but that.

290, 29. "Il a les qualités ... sont ses meilleures qualités." "The handsome Josselin has the qualities of his faults." "My dear, his faults are his best qualities."

297, 4. Art et liberté—Art and liberty.

299, 11. "Du bist die Ruh', der Friede mild!"—"Thou art rest, sweet peace!"

300, 19. c'est plus fort que moi—it is stronger than I.

304, 2. dans le blanc des yeux—straight in the eyes.

306, 20. damigella—maiden.

308, 27. "Die Ruhe kehret mir zurück"—"Peace comes back to me."

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 voilà comment ça s'est passé"—"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'amitié est l'amour sans ailes—Friendship is love without wings.

325, 9. En veux-tu? en voilà!—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. bêtise pure et simple—downright folly.

337, 15. Je suis au-dessus de mes affaires—I am above my business.

338, 11. Maman-belle-mère—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 tâcherai 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 Châteaubriand.)

347, 24. à mon insu—unknown to me.

354, 11. On a les défauts de ses qualités—One has the faults of one's virtues.

354, 15. joliment dégourdie—finely sharpened.

358, 10. La quatrième 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 à dormir debout—a story to bore one to sleep.

374, 23. Ou avions-nous donc la tête et les yeux?—What were we doing with our minds and eyes?

377, 1. "Cara deúm 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'était un naïf, 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 Æneid. Tityre tu patulæ (recubans sub tegmine fagi)—Thou, Tityrus, reclining beneath the shade of a spreading beech.—The first line of the first Eclogue of Virgil. Mæcenas atavis (edite regibus)—Mæcenas descended from royal ancestors.—Horace, Odes, 1, 1, l.

381, 10. [Greek: Mênin aeide]—Sing the wrath.—The first words of Homer's Iliad.

381, 21. Débats—Le Journal des Débats,—a Parisian literary newspaper.

386, 3. sommité littéraire—literary pinnacle.

386, 16. Rouillon Duval—a class of cheap restaurants in Paris.

386, 30. Étoiles Mortes—Dead Stars.

388, 5. la coupe—the cutwater.

388, 11. à la hussarde—head first.

389, 2. la très-sage Héloïse—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 ça—we'll arrange all that.

389, 20. C'est la chasteté même, mais ce n'est pas Dèjanire—It is chastity itself, but it is not Dèjanire.

390, 20. très élégante—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 irréprochable—a perfect image of a good-natured colossus, of irreproachable bearing.