#une malheureuse ... courage#, _a poor, faithless
coward_.]

ACT II. SCENE 15.

#Page 58.#

[Footnote 154: #brigadier#, _sergeant_, commanding from four to six
_gendarmes_ or mounted police. See p.31, note 1.]

ACT III. SCENE 1.

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[Footnote 155: #trop#, _quite_, here.]

#Page 61.#

[Footnote 156: #fosses#, _moat_, for this was an ancient ancestral
castle.]

[Footnote 157: #Par exemple#, _However_, here.]

[Footnote 158: #donne sur#, _fronts on_, looks out on.]

[Footnote 159: #bouquet de bois#, _clump of trees_, here.]

[Footnote 160: #galonne#, _trimmed_ with gold lace.]

[Footnote 161: #Quand je#, _Didn't I_.]

ACT III. SCENE 2.

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[Footnote 162: #la#, equivalent to _preoccupied with_.]

[Footnote 163: #chateaux en Espagne#, _castles in Spain_, i.e., air
castles, foolish fancies.]

#Page 63.#

[Footnote 164: #j'ai failli me jeter#, _I almost threw myself_.
Literally, "I just missed throwing myself."]

#Page 64.#

[Footnote 165: #les jours#, _the life_. Common in exalted and
classical styles.]

[Footnote 166: #Du tout#, _Not at all_.]

[Footnote 167: #guides#, _reins_.]

#Page 66.#

[Footnote 168: #pousse#, i.e., _into what a self-contradictory
position my double nature has forced me_. Cp. pp. 17, 18.]

ACT III. SCENE 3.

[Footnote 169: #ouvrage#, _fancy work_.]

ACT III. SCENE 4.

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[Footnote 170: #donnerez pas le change#, _put off the scent_. A
hunting term.]

[Footnote 171: #m'en garderais bien#, i.e., _take good care not to_,
pretending that his search amuses her because it will certainly fail.]

[Footnote 172: #Ah! ca#, _Really now_. Mockingly.]

ACT III. SCENE 5.

#Page 69.#

[Footnote 173: #en bourgeois#, _in citizen's dress_. Similarly, _en
domestique_, p.70, line 11.]

ACT III, SCENE 6.

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[Footnote 174: #Dieu#, etc., _Goodness, how afraid I am that I shall
be afraid_.]

#Page 71.#

[Footnote 175: #a moi#, _in my service_.]

[Footnote 176: #en reponds#, _answer for him_, i.e., guarantee his
innocence.]

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[Footnote 177: #grand dieu#, _great heavens, do you call that wit and
tact! Do you suppose_, etc.]

#Page 74.#

[Footnote 178: #vous payer de#, _repay you for_. Note the difference
between this and _vous payer tout_, "pay you all."]

ACT III. SCENE 7.

[Footnote 179: #courrier#, _despatch_, here. Cp. p.4, line 17.]

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[Footnote 180: #passe avant#, _takes prece