[30] S. M., Sa Majesté.
[31] jugements de Dieu; in feudal times, a person accused of wrongdoing had the right to demand a single combat with his accuser or the latter's representative, and God was called on to give the victory to the right.
[32] ce n'était pas de thé qu'il s'agissait, there was no talk of tea.
[33] ne se fit pas attendre, was not slow in being brought.
[34] fakir (fakir, begging monk), Wichnou (Vishnu). About has here curiously enough taken the title of a Mohammedan priest to typify his Hindu worshipper, whose greatest happiness is to see Vishnu (the second member of the Buddhist triad and the most popular god of modern Hindu worship). In point of fact, the ideal of perfect bliss according to Hindu belief is not entrance into the heaven of Vishnu but absorption into Brahma.
[35] Mais où donc avais-je la tête? why what was I thinking of?
[36] l'on ne m'y reprendra plus, and no one will catch me at it again.
[37] The Orleanists, see note #4.
[38] voler... dans, to steal... from; after a verb of taking dans refers to the place from which the object is removed.
[39] du père Lopinot, of old man Lopinot.