Chapter 15

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[Footnote 108: #à en être#, _have a part in it_.]

[Footnote 109: #Toujours du roman#, _You are always a little romantic_ in your ideas.]

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[Footnote 110: #m'en défendre#, _help it_.]

[Footnote 111: #Qu' ... belle#, _How beautiful_. Though this use of _que_ is very common, it often puzzles beginners.]

[Footnote 112: #vienne la sentence#, _let the sentence come_. Optative.]

[Footnote 113: #madrigaux#, _pretty speeches_; properly "madrigals," or love-songs, in the artificial pastoral manner. Originally a form of musical composition.]

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[Footnote 114: #désintéressement#, _unselfish devotion_. This speech is a good example of what the French call _blague_,--a sort of light-hearted mockery of moral ideals. See my note to "Le Gendre de monsieur Poirier," p. 5, note 7.]

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[Footnote 115: #original#, _queer_, "a strange coincidence." Not "original" (_originel_), Cp. p. 34, note 2.]