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' _Serviteur au_ is here used in the sense of _tant pis pour. Serviteur_ is not infrequently used as a formula of dismissal. [20] VOUS METTEZ. An inverted order quite common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the second of two imperatives is construed with an object pronoun. Compare: "Quittez cette chimere, et m'aimez " (Corneille). "Polissez-le sans cesse et le repolissez" (Boileau, _Art Poetique_, Chant 1). [21] DONT. _Que would preferably be used to-day, so as not to repeat the construction of the antecedent. Compare _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 175. [22] QU'IL VOUS REVIENNE, 'That you like him.' [23] MONSIEUR PREVIENT EN SA FAVEUR, 'The gentleman's appearance speaks in his favour.' [24] GRACES. In modern French the singular is preferred. [25] EST-CE A VOUS A QUI IL EN VEUT, 'Is it you whom he has come to see?' See _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 68; _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 175 and note 176; _le Legs_, note 132, and _le Legs_, note 135. [26] COMME S'EN ALLANT, for, _comme en s'en allant. [27] PARTI, 'Position' (Littre, 10 deg.). The idea of 'salary' is conveyed by the word as used here. [28] RENVERRAI TOUT. That is to say, _tout ce qui se presentera_; 'I will dismiss all other applicants.' [29] PARTI. See note 27. [30] REPRESENTE, 'call attention, 'set forth'; a form often used in petitions. [31] PARDI. See _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 15. [32] A VOTRE AISE LE RESTE, 'The rest when you like.' [33] D'OU VIENT PREFERER CELUI-CI. See _le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_, note 220. [34] ARRETE, for the modern French _engage_ ('engaged'). [35] IL ME TARDE, 'I long.' [36] EN PASSE, 'In a position to.' [37] D'ALLER A TOUT. For the more modern expression _d'arriver a tout_, 'to attain any height.' [38] DEFAITE, 'Excuse' or 'pretext' (Littre", 4 deg., also Diet, de l'Acad. 1878). [39] ELEVATION. Used here with the unusual meaning of 'desire for social eminence.' [40] ELLE S'ENDORT DANS CET ETAT, 'She is satisfied with her condition.' While already in the seventeenth century the ambition of rich _bourgeois_ to gain admission to the exclusive circles of the nobility had been sufficiently marked to induce Moliere to attack it in his _Bourgeois gentilhomme_, it was even more noticeable in the eighteenth, and _mesalliances_ between noblemen and women of the middle class became much more frequent. [41] REFLEXION ROTURIERE. _Rot
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