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e d'estomac_--a matter of stomach. 418, 1. "_Je suis alle de bon matin_," etc. "I went at early morn To pick the violet, And hawthorne, and jasmine, To celebrate thy birthday. With my own hands I bound The rosebuds and the rosemary To crown thy golden head. "But for thy royal beauty Be humble, I pray thee. Here all things die, flower, summer, Youth and life: Soon, soon the day will be, My fair one, when they'll carry thee Faded and pale in a winding-sheet." 418, 19. _perissoires_--paddle-boats. _pique-tetes_--diving-boards. 418, 21. _station balneaire_--bathing resort. 419, 25. _utile dulci_--the useful with the pleasant. 420, 9. _la chasse aux souvenirs_--the hunt after remembrances. 420, 25, _s'est encanaille_--keeps low company. 422, 25. _porte-cochere_--carriage entrance. 423, 1. "_Ah, ma foi!... la balle au camp_"--"Ah, my word, I understand that, gentlemen--I, too, was a school-boy once, and was fond of rounders." 423, 11. _Le Fils de la Vierge_--The Virgin's Son. 423, 12. _mutatis mutandis_--the necessary changes being made. 423, 34. "_Moi aussi, je fumais ... n'est ce pas?_"--"I too smoked when it was forbidden; what do you expect? Youth must have its day, musn't it?" 424, 3. _dame_--indeed. 425, 30. _cour des miracles_--the court of miracles. (A meeting-place of beggars described in Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris." So called on account of the sudden change in the appearance of the pretended cripples who came there.) 426, 16. "_O dis-donc, Hortense_," etc.--"Oh say, Hortense, how cold it is! whenever will it be eleven o'clock, so that we can go to bed?" 428, 5. _nous autres_--we others. 428, 22. _Numero Deus impare gaudet_--The god delights in uneven numbers. 430, 22. "_Aus meinen Thraenen spriessen_," etc. "Out of my tear-drops springeth A harvest of beautiful flowers; And my sighing turneth To a choir of nightingales." Heine. 435, 24. _Ah, mon Dieu!_--Ah, my God! 437, 34. _Etablissement_--establishment. 439, 31. _Pandore et sa Boite_--Pandore and her Box. 441, 12. "_C'est papa qui paie et maman qui regale_"--"Papa pays and mamma trea
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