.

337, 15. _Je suis au-dessus de mes affaires_--I am above my
business.

338, 11. _Maman-belle-mere_--Mama-mother-in-law.

338, 30. _vous plaisantez, mon ami; un amateur comme moi_--you are
joking, my friend; an amateur like myself.

338, 31. _Quis custodiet (ipsos custodes)?_--Who shall guard the
guards themselves?

339, 2. _monsieur anglais, qui avait mal aux yeux_--English
gentleman, who had something the matter with his eyes.

340, 5. _La belle dame sans merci_--The fair lady merciless.

342, 4. _de par le monde_--in society.

342, 18. _je tacherai de ne pas en abuser trop!_--I will try not to
take too much of it!

344, 15. _le dernier des Abencerrages_--the last of the
Abencerrages. (The title of a story by Chateaubriand.)

347, 24. _a mon insu_--unknown to me.

354, 11. _On a les defauts de ses qualites_--One has the faults of
one's virtues.

354, 15. _joliment degourdie_--finely sharpened.

358, 10. _La quatrieme Dimension_--The Fourth Dimension.

360, 25. _nous avons eu la main heureuse_--we have been fortunate.

360, 28. _smalah_--encampment of an Arab chieftain.

363, 19. _Je suis homme d'affaires_--I am a man of business.

373, 28. _un conte a dormir debout_--a story to bore one to sleep.

374, 23. _Ou avions-nous donc la tete et les yeux?_--What were we
doing with our minds and eyes?

377, 1. "_Cara deum soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum_"--"The dear
offspring of God, the increase of Jove."

378, 22. _Tous les genres sont bons, hormis le genre ennuyeux_--All
kinds are good, except the boring kind.

380, 3. _C'etait un naif, le beau Josselin_--He was ingenuous, the
handsome Josselin.

381, 9. _Arma virumque cano_--Arms and the man I sing.--The first
words of Virgil's _AEneid_.
_Tityre tu patulae (recubans sub tegmine fagi)_--Thou,
Tityrus, reclining beneath the shade of a spreading
beech.--The first line of the first _Eclogue_ of Virgil.
_Maecenas atavis (edite regibus)_--Maecenas descended from
royal ancestors.--Horace, _Odes_, 1, 1, l.

381, 10. [Greek: Menin aeide]--Sing the wrath.--The first words of
Homer's _Iliad_.

381, 21. _Debats--Le Journal des Debats_,--a Parisian literary
newspaper.

386, 3. _sommite litteraire_--literary pinnacle.

386, 16. _Rouillon Duval_--a class of cheap restaurants