[140] qui se rappelait au souvenir de son amie, who reminded her friend of her existence.
[141] que nous ne ferons pas les marquises, that we are not going to be so exceedingly formal.
[142] Un peu fou: c'est un bon, a little queer, perhaps, but he is one of the good ones.
[143] Je n'y suis pas, I am not at home.
[144] s'enca..., se mésa..., for s'encanailler, se mésallier.
[145] on a beau les chasser, it is of no use to send them off.
[146] qu'on me pose les sangsues, that I am being bled (by means of leeches).
[147] je lui dirai son fait, I will settle matters with him.
[148] Oreste... Pylade; the reference is to Racine's tragedy of Andromaque (Act I, Scene 1), where the two friends meet after years of separation.
[149] avait la tête... de moins, was a head taller than her friend and but half as stout.