Endnotes + 

Old woman. ↩ + 

“What!” ↩ + 

Boards or staves. ↩ + 

The name of an Elegy written by Millevoye. ↩ + 

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. ↩ + 

New Prometheus. ↩ + 

The Right Hand and the Left. ↩ + 