Endnotes

1. Old woman. ↩

2. “What!” ↩

3. Boards or staves. ↩

4. The name of an Elegy written by Millevoye. ↩

5. The rendering given above is only intended to link the various speeches into coherence; it has no resemblance with the French. In the original,

   “Font chatoyer les mots.”

   “Et quelquefois les morts,” dit Monsieur de Clagny.

   “Ah! Lousteau! vous vous donnez de ces R-là (airs-là).”

   Literally: “And sometimes the dead.”⁠—“Ah, are those the airs you assume?”⁠—the play on the insertion of the letter R (mots, morts) has no meaning in English. ↩

6. New Prometheus. ↩

7. The Right Hand and the Left. ↩