[116]: A conventual term,—a six.—Tr.
[117]: God bless you!—Tr.
[118]: Many thanks!—Tr.
[119]: Of course a parody on "Verbum sat sapienti,"—"A word for the fool," &c.—Tr.
[120]: Or reading-easel (the latter word seeming to be an English corruption of the German Esel, ass),—any book-rest. Maler-esel means a painter's easel.—Tr.
[121]: When they occur in actual life.—Tr.
[122]: Eclectic or miscellaneous science, not confined to one department.—Tr.
[123]: A King of France once sent a vassal illum baculum, quo se sustentabat, in symbolum traditionis. (Du Fresne's Glossary.) So far as I know, there has never been made a good and serviceable—abridgment of this glossarium for ladies.
[124]: Just as there are listening sisters (les Tourières or Sœurs écoutés) who go with the nuns into the conversing room, to overhear their talk.
[125]: Or absentee-curates.—Tr.