Chapter XII: Act II: Scene 15

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[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.]

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[Footnote 156: #fossés#, _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: #galonné#, _trimmed_ with gold lace.]

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

ACT III. SCENE 2.

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

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

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

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

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

[Footnote 167: #guides#, _reins_.]

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[Footnote 168: #poussé#, 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! çà#, _Really now_. Mockingly.]

ACT III. SCENE 5.

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[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_.]

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

[Footnote 176: #en réponds#, _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.]

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[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 precedence of_. The term is from aristocratic etiquette.]

[Footnote 181: #j'y pense#, _it just occurs to me_.]

ACT III. SCENE 9.

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[Footnote 182: #prérogatives#, _consideration_. For instance, one might choose to be shot rather than guillotined, to look death in the face with unbandaged eyes, and to give the command to fire, all matters regarded as questions of honor by soldiers sentenced to death.]

[Footnote 183: #sans bruit#, _unostentatiously_, but de Grignon takes it literally. The rest of this scene recalls not unsuccessfully Molière's _sans dot_ in "l'Avare," Act I., Scene 5.]

ACT III. SCENE 10.

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[Footnote 184: #de gaieté de coeur#, _frivolously_ or _wantonly_, here.]

ACT III. SCENE 11.

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[Footnote 185: #réellement# is meant to hint a pity that foreshadows the dawn of the love suggested in p. 93, line 7.]

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[Footnote 186: #tant y a-t-il que#, _any way this much is certain that_.]

[Footnote 187: #j'ai ce qu'il me faut#. The phrase has a touch of irony that is not in de Grignon's character.]

ACT III. SCENE 12.

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[Footnote 188: #feu de file#, _volley fire_.]

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[Footnote 189: #je le voudrais bien#, _I wish it had been_, it would have been so comical. This was of course practically a confession.]

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[Footnote 190: #vingt-cinq louis#. See p. 72, line 28.]

ACT III. SCENE 13.

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[Footnote 191: #il# is masculine; _wherever he may be found_.]

ACT III. SCENE 14.

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[Footnote 192: #je le pense#, _I really think so_. He is surprised at the change in his character that his magnanimity has produced in him; a psychological touch as delicate as it is true.]

[Footnote 193: #en sentinelle#, _play the sentinel_.]

ACT III. SCENE 15.

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[Footnote 194: #lui en veux#, _are hurt with him for it_. For the ordinary use, cp. p. 20, line 29, and p. 85, line 16.]

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[Footnote 195: #promesse#, alluding to p.74.]

[Footnote 196: #de grâce#, _for mercy's sake_.]

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[Footnote 197: Note that to the very end Léonie does not suspect either her aunt's love or her self-sacrifice.]

[Footnote 198: #jupes#. Fortunately for the possibility of this concealment, neither the _skirts_ of 1817, nor those of 1851, were like those of recent years.]