Chapter XV: Part 15

208, 10. _la peau de chagrin_--the shagreen skin. (The hero of this
story, by Balzac, is given a piece of shagreen, on the
condition that all his wishes will be gratified, but that
every wish will cause the leather to shrink, and that when
it disappears his life will come to an end. _Chagrin_ also
means sorrow, so that Barty's retina was indeed "a skin of
sorrow," continually shrinking.)

208, 29. "_Les miseres du jour font le bonheur du lendemain!_"--"The
misery of to-day is the happiness of to-morrow!"

210, 23. _dune_--a low sand-hill. (They are to be found all along
the Belgian coast.)

214, 22. _par_--by.

214. 32. _dit-on_--they say.

216, 22. _bien d'accord_--of the same mind.

217, 1. _nee_--by birth.

217, 29. _moi qui vous parle_--I who speak to you.

219, 3. _Kermesse_--fair.

219, 6. _estaminet_--a drinking and smoking resort.

219, 10. _a la Teniers_--after the manner of Teniers, the painter.

219, 34. _in secula seculorum!_--for ages of ages!

220, 3. _Rue des Ursulines Blanches_--Street of the White
Ursulines.

220, 5. _des Soeurs Redemptoristines_--Sisters of the Redemption.

220, 11. _Frau_--Mrs. (This is German; the Flemish is _Juffrow_.)

220, 26. "_La Cigogne_"--"The Stork Inn."

221, 9. _salade aux fines herbes_--salad made of a mixture of
herbs.

222, 28. _a fleur de tete_--on a level with their heads.

223, 6. _savez vous?_--do you know?

223, 26. _chaussees_--roads.

224, 26. _Les Maitres Sonneurs_--The Master Ringers.
_La Mare au Diable_--The Devil's Pool.

225, 21. _seminaire_--clerical seminary.

225, 29. "_Mio caro Paolo di Kocco!_"--"My dear Paul de Kock!"

225, 32. "_Un malheureux_" etc.
"An unfortunate dressed in black,
Who resembled me like a brother."
(Du Maurier himself.)

228, 14. _mein armer_--my poor.

228, 17. _Lieber_--dear.

229, 5. _Bel Mazetto_--Beautiful Mazetto.

229, 7. "_Ich bin ein lustiger Student, mein Pardy_"--"I am a jolly
Student, my Barty."

229, 15. _Katzenjammer_--sore head.

229, 18. _Liebe_--love.

230, 2. _tout le monde_--everybody.

231, 18. _autrefois_--the times of yore.

231, 21. "_Oh, non, mon ami_"--"Oh, no, my friend."

231, 29. "_Petit bonhomme vit encore_"--"Good little fellow still
alive."

232, 1."_He quoi! pour des peccadilles_," etc.
"Eh, what! for peccadilloes
To scold those little loves?
Women are so pretty,
And one does not love forever!
Good fellow
They call me ...
My gayety is my treasure!
And the good fellow is still alive--
And the good fellow is still alive!"

233, 10. _Soupe-au-lait_--Milk porridge.

234, 2. _muscae volitantes_--(literally) hovering flies.

242, 1. "_Mettez-vous au regime des viandes saignantes!_"--"Put
Yourself on a diet of rare meat!"

242, 4. "_Mettez-vous au lait!_"--"Take to milk!"

242, 9. _desoeuvrement_--idleness.

242, 16. "_Amour, Amour_," etc.
"Love, love, when you hold us,
Well may we say: 'Prudence, good-bye!'"

244, 1. "_Il s'est conduit en homme de coeur!_"--"He has behaved
like a man of spirit!"

244, 3. "_Il s'est conduit en bon gentilhomme_"--"He has behaved
like a thorough gentleman!"

247, 9. _Les Noces de Jeannette_--Jeannette's Wedding.

247, 13. "_Cours, mon aiguille ... de notre peine!_"
"Run, my needle, through the wool!
Do not break off in my hand;
For to-morrow with good kisses
Jean will pay us for our trouble!"

249, 3. "_Helas! mon jeune ami!_"--"Alas! my young friend!"

252, 1. _Sursum cor! sursum corda!_--Lift up your heart! Lift up
Your hearts!

252, 11. _coupe-choux_--cabbage-cutter.

252, 13. "_Ca ne vous regarde pas, ... ou je vous ..._"--"It's none
of your business, you know! take yourselves off at once, or
I'll ..."

252, 19. "_Non--c'est moi qui regarde, savez-vous!_"--"No--it is I
who am looking, you know!"

252, 20. "_Qu'est-ce que vous regardez?... Vous ne voulez pas vous
en aller?_"
"What are you looking at?"
"I am looking at the moon and the stars. I am looking at
the comet!"
"Will you take yourself off at once?"
"Some other time!"
"Take yourself off, I tell you!"
"The day after to-morrow!"
"You ... will ... not ... take ... yourself ... off?"

252, 32. "_Non, sacre petit ... restez ou vous etes!_"
"No, you confounded little devil's gravel-pusher!"
"All right, stay where you are!"

254, 16. "_... du sommeil au songe--
Du songe a la mort._"

"... from sleep to dream--
From dream to death."

254, 21. "_Il est dix heures ... dans votre chambre?_"--"It's ten
o'clock, you know? Will you have your coffee in your room?"

255, 14. _ca date de loin, mon pauvre ami_--it goes a long way back,
my poor friend.

256, 8. _punctum coecum_--blind spot.

257, 27. _mon beau somnambule_--my handsome somnambulist.

257, 33. _On ne sait pas ce qui peut arriver_--One never knows what
may happen.

258, 17. _tiens_--look.

262, 10. _sans peur et sans reproche_--without fear and without
reproach.

262, 15. "_Ca s'appelle le point cache--c'est une portion de la
retine avec laquelle on ne peut pas voir...._"--"It is
called the blind spot--it is a part of the retina with
which we cannot see...."

263, 13. _c'est toujours ca_--that's always the way.

263, 23. _plus que coquette_--more than coquettish.

269, 8. _pere et mere_--father and mother.

271, 31. _more Latino_--in the Latin manner.

272, 12. _pictor ignotus_--the unknown painter.

273, 6. "_Que me voila.... Ote ton chapeau!_"
"How happy I am, my little Barty--and you? what a pretty
town, eh?"
"It's heaven, pure and simple--and you are going to teach
me German, aren't you, my dear?"
"Yes, and we will read Heine together; by the way, look! Do
you see the name of the street at the corner? Bolker
Strasse! that's where he was born, poor Heine! Take off
your hat!"

273, 19. _Maitrank_--May drink. (An infusion of woodruff in light
White wine.)

273, 34. "_Johanna, mein Fruehstueck, bitte!_"--"Johanna, my
breakfast, please!"

276, 27. _la barre de batardise_--the bar of bastardy.

279, 15. _der schoene_--the handsome.

280, 24. _Speiserei_--eating-house.

283, 5. "_ni l'or ni la grandeur ne nous rendent heureux_"--"neither
gold nor greatness makes us happy."

285, 22. _mes premieres amours_--my first loves.

286, 3. "_Petit chagrin ... un soupir!_"
"Little sorrow of childhood costing a sigh!"

286, 9. _Il avait bien raison_--He was quite right.

289, 15. _rien que ca_--nothing but that.

290, 29. "_Il a les qualites ... sont ses meilleures qualites._"
"The handsome Josselin has the qualities of his faults."
"My dear, his faults are his best qualities."

297, 4. _Art et liberte_--Art and liberty.

299, 11. "_Du bist die Ruh', der Friede mild!_"--"Thou art rest,
sweet peace!"

300, 19. _c'est plus fort que moi_--it is stronger than I.

304, 2. _dans le blanc des yeux_--straight in the eyes.

306, 20. _damigella_--maiden.

308, 27. "_Die Ruhe kehret mir zurueck_"--"Peace comes back to me."

308, 30. _prosit omen_--may the omen be propitious.

309, 5. _prima donna assoluta_--the absolute first lady. (Grand
Opera, the "leading lady.")

310, 32. _gringalet-jocrisse_--an effeminate fellow.

312, 3. _faire la popotte ensemble au coin du feu; c'est le ciel_--to
potter round the fire together; that is heaven.

312, 29. _Ausstellung_--exhibition.

314, 8. _loch_--a medicine of the consistence of honey, taken by
licking or sucking.

318, 10. "_Et voila comment ca s'est passe_"--"And that's how it
happened."

320, 14. _et plus royaliste que le Roi_--and more of a royalist than
the King.

321, 13. _cru_--growth.

323, 32. _L'amitie est l'amour sans ailes_--Friendship is love
without wings.

325, 9. _En veux-tu? en voila!_--Do you want some? here it is!

327, 10. _kudos_--glory.

328, 9. _Dis-moi qui tu hantes, je te dirai ce que tu es_--Tell me
who are your friends, and I will tell you what you are.

331, 20. _si le coeur t'en dit_--if your heart prompts you.

335, 5. _esprit de corps_--brotherhood.

335, 8. _Noblesse oblige_--Nobility imposes the obligation of
nobleness.

336, 15. _betise pure et simple_--downright folly.

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 in Paris.

386, 30. _Etoiles Mortes_--Dead Stars.

388, 5. _la coupe_--the cutwater.

388, 11. _a la hussarde_--head first.

389, 2. _la tres-sage Heloise_--the most learned Heloise. (Another
of the ladies mentioned in Villon's "Ballade of the Ladies
of Olden Time." See note to page 24, line 30.)

389, 5. _nous allons arranger tout ca_--we'll arrange all that.

389, 20. _C'est la chastete meme, mais ce n'est pas Dejanire_--It is
chastity itself, but it is not Dejanire.

390, 20. _tres elegante_--very elegant.

390, 22. _d'un noir de jais, d'une blancheur de lis_--jet black,
lily white.

391, 1. _ah, mon Dieu, la Diane chasseresse, la Sapho de
Pradier!_--ah, My God, Diana the huntress, Pradier's
Sappho!

391, 8. _un vrai type de colosse bon enfant, d'une tenue
irreprochable_--a perfect image of a good-natured colossus,
of irreproachable bearing.

391, 15. _tartines_--slices of bread and butter.

391, 17. _une vraie menagerie_--a perfect menagerie.

392, 7. _belle chatelaine_--beautiful chatelaine.

393, 1. _gazebo_--summer-house.

393, 18. _le que retranche_--name given in some French-Latin
grammars to the Latin form which expresses by the
infinitive verb and the accusative noun what in French is
expressed by "que" between two verbs.

394, 32. _alma mater dolorosa_--the tender and sorrowful mother.

394, 33. _maratre au coeur de pierre_--stony-hearted mother.

396, 19. _Tendenz novels_--novels with a purpose.

396, 28. _nouvelle-riche_--newly rich.

404, 11. _on y est tres bien_--one is very well there.

406, 26. "_Il est dix heures_" etc.--See note to page 254, line 21.

406, 30. _vilain mangeur de coeurs que vous etes_--wretched eater of
hearts that you are.

407, 30. _Un vrai petit St. Jean! il nous portera bonheur, bien
sur_--A perfect little St. John! he will bring us good
luck, for sure.

408, 27. _nous savons notre orthographie en musique la bas_--we know
our musical a b c's over there.

412, 8. _in-medio-tutissimus (ibis)_--You will go safest in the
middle.

412, 20. _diablement bien conserve_--deucedly well preserved.

413, 11. _O me fortunatum, mea si bona norim!_--O happy me, had I
known my own blessings!

414, 28. _un malheureux rate_--an unfortunate failure

415, 9. _abrutissant_--stupefying.

416, 15. _affaire d'estomac_--a matter of stomach.

418, 1. "_Je suis alle de bon matin_," etc.
"I went at early morn
To pick the violet,
And hawthorne, and jasmine,
To celebrate thy birthday.
With my own hands I bound
The rosebuds and the rosemary
To crown thy golden head.

"But for thy royal beauty
Be humble, I pray thee.
Here all things die, flower, summer,
Youth and life:
Soon, soon the day will be,
My fair one, when they'll carry thee
Faded and pale in a winding-sheet."

418, 19. _perissoires_--paddle-boats.
_pique-tetes_--diving-boards.

418, 21. _station balneaire_--bathing resort.

419, 25. _utile dulci_--the useful with the pleasant.

420, 9. _la chasse aux souvenirs_--the hunt after remembrances.

420, 25, _s'est encanaille_--keeps low company.

422, 25. _porte-cochere_--carriage entrance.

423, 1. "_Ah, ma foi!... la balle au camp_"--"Ah, my word, I
understand that, gentlemen--I, too, was a school-boy once,
and was fond of rounders."

423, 11. _Le Fils de la Vierge_--The Virgin's Son.

423, 12. _mutatis mutandis_--the necessary changes being made.

423, 34. "_Moi aussi, je fumais ... n'est ce pas?_"--"I too smoked
when it was forbidden; what do you expect? Youth must have
its day, musn't it?"

424, 3. _dame_--indeed.

425, 30. _cour des miracles_--the court of miracles. (A
meeting-place of beggars described in Hugo's "Notre Dame de
Paris." So called on account of the sudden change in the
appearance of the pretended cripples who came there.)

426, 16. "_O dis-donc, Hortense_," etc.--"Oh say, Hortense, how cold
it is! whenever will it be eleven o'clock, so that we can
go to bed?"

428, 5. _nous autres_--we others.

428, 22. _Numero Deus impare gaudet_--The god delights in uneven
numbers.

430, 22. "_Aus meinen Thraenen spriessen_," etc.
"Out of my tear-drops springeth
A harvest of beautiful flowers;
And my sighing turneth
To a choir of nightingales."
Heine.

435, 24. _Ah, mon Dieu!_--Ah, my God!

437, 34. _Etablissement_--establishment.

439, 31. _Pandore et sa Boite_--Pandore and her Box.

441, 12. "_C'est papa qui paie et maman qui regale_"--"Papa pays and
mamma treats."

445, 8. _au grande trot_--at a full trot.

447, 12. _Nous etions bien, la_--We were well, there.

447, 21. _l'homme propose_--man proposes.

448, 1. "_O tempo passato, perche non ritorni?_"--"O bygone days,
why do you not return?"

448, 7. "_Et je m'en vais,"_ etc.
"And off I go
On the evil wind
Which carries me
Here and there
Like the
Leaf that is dead."

448. 13. _rossignolet de mon ame_--little nightingale of my soul.

448, 23. _Da capo, e da capo_--Over and over again.

449, 4. _medio de fonte leporum (surgit amari aliquid)_--from the
midst of the fountain of delights something bitter arises.

By GEORGE DU MAURIER

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TRILBY

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