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48 'I was losing my temper.' 49 'I felt as if you had taken off

80 See No. 50.

an enormous weight from my The Forced Marriage.—p. 265.

shoulders.'

50 a little,' (familiar).

51 'even with the water.'

52 I overbalanced his body inside the boat.'

53 'droll,funny fellows,' (ironically and very familiar).

54 in one twist or two.'(familiar). 55thread-papers.'

56 I ran as hard as ever I could.' 57 instead of avec lui-cabriolet understood.

58 a familiar expression, implying ' refusal, denial;' here signifying that the vehicle was gone, had been taken away by a robber.'

59 instead of ce n'est rien, (vulgar). 60 en être. See Idioms, Vol I. 'we left off.'

61 I go sneaking round,' (familiar).

62 pretending as if I had no motive,' (idiom).

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neck of the bottle.'

64 'pinch,' as of snuff.

65 to weep bitterly' (in fun), meaning 'tears came streaming down.'

66 bothered,' (familiar).

67 not the king then reigning, but the other,' his predecessor-Bonaparte.

68 rich,' (familiar). 69 'it was enough to.'

70 a house in Paris, in which bodies drowned in the Seine are laid and exposed, during two or three days, in order to give the parents or friends an opportunity of claiming

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cards.

11 a kind of lodging, or small house out of town, used only occasionally, and for a short stay: a country-box.

12 the name of a well-known coffee-house.

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1 the bars distant apart.

2 a kind of stand on which are laid logs of wood for the purpose of being sawed.

3 a fashionable.'

4 one of the prisons of Paris. 5 one that was descended from a noble family. The second

No. 5. refers to 'funny fellow.' 6 famously, (vulgar). The second No. 6. refers to threshhold.'

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7 a kind of oath. The reader may easily see by the spelling that the speaker is an uneducated man.

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huffed, deprived.'

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at the corner of the street.' meaning squinting.'

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only think of such extravagant notions!' The second No. 11. refers to dans les tems, 'formerly,' that is, before the revolution.

a famous hit,' (rather vulgar). how disagreeable it is!' The interrogative used for the exclamative, (very familiar). (literally) when with wolves, we should howl,' that is, it is requisite that we should suit our manners to those with whom we live.'

seriously, in good earnest.' it surely is he.'

I have seen plenty of new countries.' The second No. 18. refers to fait voir aux autres, ' and have made others run before me.'

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not at all.'

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24 a kind of jacket worn during 14 douter de, 'to doubt.' Hence

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ne douter de rien, means entertain no doubt concerning any thing;' hence, to be positive, vain, conceited ;' ça stands for cela, applied sometimes to persons to shew contempt. Here it is used in a goodnatured way.

15 The substantive is understood, (familiar). The first No. 15. refers to y tenir, stand it, bear it.'

16 see Notes, No. 11. 17 d'aplomb, literally, means 'perpendicularly.' Hence it means firm, bold, steady.' Here the phrase may be thus translated, it gives more weight.'

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to let it alone.'

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bankruptcies.'

thing that takes place.'

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money, capital.'

35 a division of the population

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it was high time.'

made since the revolution,

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Paris. p. 376.

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Imprime par R. Clay, Bread Street Hill.

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