Page 92.

[Footnote 200: #y avons donné#, have fallen into it, i.e., the

trap.]

Page 93.

[Footnote 201: #vous avez beau dire#, _it is vain for you to

protest_.]

[Footnote 202: #chemin faisant#, on the way.]

[Footnote 203: #Ne parlons pas de cela#. This is as far as she can

becomingly go; and yet so far she must go. We should be disappointed if

de Grignon's devotion were left without hope of reward, and yet the

wound must be healed before the new love can declare itself.]

[Footnote 204: #les as et les rois#, the leading honors at cards.

There is a double play on these words in what follows. First, the

countess gently reproaches Henri for failing in the traditional loyalty

of his family to the restored royal family; then, secondly, she alludes

to the rivalry of herself and Léonie as a strife of queens (#bataille de

dames#), to whom Henri is the #roi# who can make a "marriage"

(technical term at cards) with either he will.]

VOCABULARY

NOTE. Articles and their contractions with à and de, personal and

possessive pronouns and words to be rendered in every case by like words

in English (e.g. action, affection) are omitted in this vocabulary.

Irregularly formed plurals and the feminine endings of adjectives are

noted. Irregular verbal forms are entered in alphabetical order.