Chapter V: Act I: Scene 3

#Page 13.# [Footnote 13: #se donner de l'importance#, _put on airs_. She affects to attribute Charles's manner to the democratic tendencies of the age.]

[Footnote 14: #tout à l'heure#, _by and by_, but also "just now."]

[Footnote 15: #courrier#, _mail_, here.]

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[Footnote 16: #coup de tête#, _piece of rashness_.]

[Footnote 17: #Mon dieu#. Wherever _Dieu_ carries any suggestion of deity, it will be printed with a capital. Where, as here, it corresponds to "Dear me," "Oh dear," and the like, I have thought it more reverent to print with _d_.]

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[Footnote 18: #de qui tenir#, a parent _from whom to inherit it_.]

[Footnote 19: See p. 2, note 4.]

[Footnote 20: #manqué chavirer# (_capsize_), for the more usual _manqué de chavirer_.]

[Footnote 21: #fête#, not "birthday" as with us, but _baptismal day_, or day of her patron saint.]

[Footnote 22: #vous ira#, _will become you_.]

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[Footnote 23: #vous#, _on you_. A colloquial use.]

[Footnote 24: #à vous toute seule#, i.e., without the rejuvenating effect of my company. For the feminine ending of the adverb _toute_ see any grammar.]

[Footnote 25: _I have no skill in that_. Ingenuously.]

[Footnote 26: _One really cannot be more considerate_, #pas# is emphatic.]

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[Footnote 27: #petite marquise!# _you little aristocrat!_]

[Footnote 28: #s'il est gai#, _isn't he light-hearted?_ or, _how light-hearted he is!_]

[Footnote 29: #Cimarosa# (1740-1801), Italian composer, noted for the graceful charm of his vocal music, especially in light opera.]

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[Footnote 30: #bien né#, _of noble birth_, of aristocratic breeding.]

[Footnote 31: #bien de sa personne#, _pleasing in his appearance._]

[Footnote 32: #bonne compagnie#, _good breeding_, good society.]

[Footnote 33: #me mettent hors de moi#, _exasperate me_.]

[Footnote 34: #nous déconsidère#, _is humiliating_ or _derogatory to us_.]

ACT I. SCENE 4.

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[Footnote 35: Léonie, by thus endeavoring to shield Charles from blame, betrays the dawning of her love.]

[Footnote 36: #Du tout#, _Not at all_.]

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[Footnote 37: Léonie naïvely mistakes her anger with herself for loving Charles for anger with Charles. This is a true and charming bit of feminine psychology.]