education hardly use it at all, and persons of refined
culture avoid its ill-sounding forms; while even such classical authors
as Voltaire sometimes substitute the present for it. Cp. my note to "Le
Gendre de monsieur Poirier," p.29, note 2.]

ACT I. SCENE 3.

#Page 13.# [Footnote 13: #se donner de l'importance#, _put on
airs_. She affects to attribute Charles's manner to the democratic
tendencies of the age.]

[Footnote 14: #tout a l'heure#, _by and by_, but also "just now."]

[Footnote 15: #courrier#, _mail_, here.]

#Page 5.#

[Footnote 16: #coup de tete#, _piece of rashness_.]

[Footnote 17: #Mon dieu#. Wherever _Dieu_ carries any suggestion of
deity, it will be printed with a capital. Where, as here, it corresponds
to "Dear me," "Oh dear," and the like, I have thought it more reverent
to print with _d_.]

#Page 6.#

[Footnote 18: #de qui tenir#, a parent _from whom to inherit it_.]

[Footnote 19: See p. 2, note 4.]

[Footnote 20: #manque chavirer# (_capsize_), for the more usual
_manque de chavirer_.]

[Footnote 21: #fete#, not "birthday" as with us, but _baptismal day_,
or day of her patron saint.]

[Footnote 22: #vous ira#, _will become you_.]

#Page 7.#

[Footnote 23: #vous#, _on you_. A colloquial use.]

[Footnote 24: #a vous toute seule#, i.e., without the rejuvenating
effect of my company. For the feminine ending of the adverb _toute_ see
any grammar.]

[Footnote 25: _I have no skill in that_. Ingenuously.]

[Footnote 26: _One really cannot be more considerate_, #pas# is
emphatic.]

#Page 8.#

[Footnote 27: #petite marquise!# _you little aristocrat!_]

[Footnote 28: #s'il est gai#, _isn't he light-hearted?_ or, _how
light-hearted he is!_]

[Footnote 29: #Cimarosa# (1740-1801), Italian composer, noted for the
graceful charm of his vocal music, especially in light opera.]

#Page 9.#

[Footnote 30: #bien ne#, _of noble birth_, of aristocratic breeding.]

[Footnote 31: #bien de sa personne#, _pleasing in his appearance._]

[Footnote 32: #bonne compagnie#, _good breeding_, good society.]

[Footnote 33: #me mettent hors de moi#, _exasperate me_.]

[Footnote 34: #nous deconsidere#, _is humiliating_ or _derogatory to
us_.]

ACT I. SCENE 4.

#Page 10.#

[Footnote 35: Leonie, by thus endeavoring to shield Charles from blame,
betrays the dawning of her love.]

[Footnote 36: #Du tout#, _Not at all_.]

#Page 11.#

[Footnote 37: Leonie naively mistakes her anger with her