ch officers.

_82_ 15 _Pont-Neuf:_ this 'New Bridge' is the oldest of the many which
span the Seine in Paris. It was completed in 1604 by Henry IV, and
figures in many legends of old Paris. _C'est vieux comme le Pont-Neuf_
has become a proverb.

_82_ 20 _faisant frrt!_ 'saying sst! (scat!).'

_82_ 23 _vers les six heures:_ = _vers six heures._ Cf. note to _23_ 16.

_83_ 3 _Plus de doute:_ cf. note to _13_ 1.

_83_ 5 _tout juste:_ = _precisement_ _78_ 8, cf. _73_ 3.

_83_ 8 _ex-voto:_ (sing. and pl. alike), 'ex-votos,' 'votive offerings';
an offering made in fulfillment of a vow. Latin _ex voto_; cf. Horace,
_Odes_, _I_, v. The worship of saints in Mohammedan countries (where it
ranks as a superstition rather than as orthodox religion) is mainly
confined to the saint's tomb, or reputed tomb.

_83_ 12 _s'y refusa:_ = _se refusa a cela_ (cf. note to _2_ 29); 'refused
to consent.'--_tenait a:_ 'insisted upon.' _Tenir a faire quelque chose_ =
'to desire strongly to do a thing,' 'to be determined to do a thing';
_tenir a quelque chose_ = 'to care greatly for a thing.'

_83_ 16 _Ceci fait:_ 'this done.'

_83_ 31 _pas de velours:_ 'velvet steps,' 'soft steps.'

_84_ 1 _qu'on egorge:_ 'having their throats cut.'

_84_ 3 _Tartarin l'etait:_ 'Tartarin was' (it, that is, _emu_); cf. note
to _chose_ = 'to _25_ 18.

_84_ 7 _en train:_ cf. note to _67_ 13.

_84_ 9 _encore:_ cf. note to _18_ 31.

_84_ 10 _tint bon:_ 'held his ground'; cf. note to _27_ 16.

_84_ 14 _se replie ... marabout:_ 'retreats as fast as he can to the
marabout.' For _a toutes jambes_ cf. _78_ 2.

_84_ 17 _hydres:_ the Hydra of classical mythology was a water serpent
with many heads, each of which, when cut off, was replaced immediately by
two new ones.

_64_ 18 _A moi:_ 'help!'

_84_ 23 _filer:_ here, 'scamper off.' _Filer_ = 'to spin' (yarn), 'to
uncoil,' and colloquially 'to take to one's heels,' 'to race'; cf. _88_
27, _94_ 9.

_85_ 2 _au petit jour:_ 'at early dawn'; _au grand jour_ 'in full
daylight.'--qu'il: cf. note to _5_ 1.

_85_ 6 _chameau a bosse simple:_ 'one-humped camel,' dromadaire _93_ 6.

_85_ 9 _le Christ:_ pronounced [krist]; always with the article (the
Anointed).

_85_ 10 _Gethsemani:_ in the words _douta, pleurer_, Daudet refers to
Christ's moral and physical recoil at Gethsemane. A Frenchman is not
offended as we are by the flippancy of this reference to one of the
supreme moments of Christ's life. Cf. De Vigny's