Endnotes + 

Beautiful girl. ↩ + 

Englishwoman! ↩ + 

What are you doing there? That trunk is mine. ↩ + 

Boarding-school. ↩ + 

It is only Englishwomen who would attempt this kind of thing,⁠ … what courage those women have! ↩ + 

They are ringing for evening prayers! ↩ + 

And what do you say to it? + 

Well⁠—many things. ↩ + 

Tell me,⁠ … do you really feel yourself incapable? ↩ + 

They are Labassecouriennes, coarse, frank, blunt, and just a little stubborn. ↩ + 

That’s true. ↩ + 

Young girl. ↩ + 

That’s well.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠… That’ll do. ↩ + 

I have lied many times. ↩ + 

Dear me, but this is difficult! I won’t do it. It’s too wearisome. ↩ + 

Because, when you die⁠—you will burn in hell. + 

Do you believe that? + 

Certainly I believe it: everybody knows that; besides the priest told me so. ↩ + 

To ensure your salvation on high, they would do well to burn you alive here below. ↩ + 

So so.⁠ … That’s sufficient. ↩ + 

So they say. ↩ + 

Handsome, but rather a fine man than a good-looking fellow. ↩ + 

Sky-blue sash. ↩ + 

Someone has come for Miss Fanshawe! ↩ + 

Listen! ↩ + 

Listen, you dear old grumbler! ↩ + 

Greenhorn. ↩ + 

Not at all! ↩ + 

I am his queen, but he is not my king. ↩ + 

Serious men, intense and impassioned, don’t suit my taste. ↩ + 

Give me your handsome fops and pretty rogues! Long live joy and pleasure! Away with serious love-making and strict propriety! ↩ + 

I love my handsome Colonel,⁠ … I shall never care a bit for his rival. I would never be a middle-class wife, not I! ↩ + 

Their future. ↩ + 

Take care, my child! ↩ + 

What a nuisance this Désirée is! What a little serpent! ↩ + 

Désirée requires very careful looking after. ↩ + 

This child has broken a bone. ↩ + 

And let someone go at once for a cab. ↩ + 

That will do better. ↩ + 

Thank you, Madam; well done, very well done!⁠ … That is a very opportune self-possession, and worth a thousand fits of misplaced sensibility. ↩ + 

Easy freedom of the goodwife. ↩ + 

This poor Doctor John!⁠ … this dear young man! the best creature in the world. ↩ + 

Look⁠ … how tidy this Miss Lucy is! You are fond of that alley, then, Miss? ↩ + 

That’s right. ↩ + 

A veritable British hypocrite from what you say⁠—a sort of monster, rough and harsh like an old corporal of grenadiers, and sour as a nun. ↩ + 

The grey dress, the straw hat. ↩ + 

What a tale!⁠ … No one has been there. ↩ + 

The evening breeze, ↩ + 

What a fine night! ↩ + 

How fine is it? and how fresh the air! ↩ + 

Good night, my dear, sleep well! ↩ + 

Pious reading. ↩ + 

This child is always a little feverish. ↩ + 

Has Dr John seen her lately? He has not, has he? ↩ + 

Spring green hat. ↩ + 

There’s nothing the matter with the little monkey, is there? ↩ + 

Not much. ↩ + 

Still. ↩ + 

Ah!⁠ … Then there is nothing behind it: no mystery, no love affair, for instance? ↩ + 

Not more than there is on the palm of my hand. ↩ + 

What a pity!⁠ … and I⁠—who was just beginning to form some ideas about all that. ↩ + 

Well, you have got your labour for your pains. ↩ + 

I know very well she has no principles, and perhaps no morals. ↩ + 

Her behaviour in the school is always proper, and even filled with a certain dignity: it is always what it should be. Neither the pupils nor their parents look for anything more, nor, consequently, do I. ↩ + 

Big arbour. ↩ + 

Ah, well then! Two or three silver spoons and forks. ↩ + 

Listen! ↩ + 

Are you all a parcel of dolls then?⁠ … Have you no passions, no feeling? Is your flesh turned to snow and your blood to ice? I want to see some fire in it, some life, soul! ↩ + 

Dressmaker. ↩ + 

So sombre⁠—not gay. ↩ + 

Grown women. ↩ + 

As for Mademoiselle St. Pierre, she looks like an ancient coquette playing the simple maiden. ↩ + 

That is it!⁠ … I know her: it is the Englishwoman. So much the worse, but English, and therefore prudish as she may be⁠—she shall get me out of this mess, or I’ll know why. ↩ + 

God knows I detest them like the plague, ordinarily. ↩ + 

To work, quickly! ↩ + 

I have heard it all. That’s good enough. Once more! ↩ + 

Again!⁠ … No sour looks! Don’t be bashful! ↩ + 

At least she knows it. ↩ + 

Well! What is it, miss? + 

I am very hungry. + 

What, you’re hungry! How about the collation? ↩ + 

Ah! That’s true. ↩ + 

Well, so be it. ↩ + 

Is it not beautiful? ↩ + 

Order! Silence! ↩ + 

I draw a line there! ↩ + 

Coxcomb. ↩ + 

Dear friend⁠—pretty Englishwoman. ↩ + 

School play. ↩ + 

Courage, my friend! A little more self-possession⁠—steady yourself, M. Lucien, and all will go well. ↩ + 

That, perhaps, is finer than your model,⁠ … but it is not the part. ↩ + 

Handsome blonde⁠ … pretty brunette⁠ … this splendid girl with jet-black hair. ↩ + 

Keep quiet!⁠ … You shall not pass except it is over my dead body, and you shall not dance unless it is with the nun of the garden. ↩ + 

Get out, and look sharp about it. ↩ + 

It is himself. ↩ + 

That is enough: I don’t want him. ↩ + 

So,⁠ … you will be enthroned like a queen; tomorrow⁠—enthroned beside me? No doubt you are tasting in anticipation the delights of authority. There seems an indescribable radiance about you, you ambitious little woman. ↩ + 

How severe you are, Sir! ↩ + 

I took it for a warning. ↩ + 

For example. ↩ + 

Did I say that right? ↩ + 

Give me your hand. ↩ + 

Poor little woman! ↩ + 

Father, I am a Protestant. ↩ + 

What are you doing here? ↩ + 

I am just amusing myself, sir. + 

You are amusing yourself! and at what, if you please? But first, do me the favour of rising; take my arm, and let us go to the other side. ↩ + 

These Englishwomen are peculiar! ↩ + 

There, there! Be silent, and sit down. ↩ + 

Just sit down, Miss, and don’t move⁠—do you hear?⁠—until someone comes for you, or till I give you permission. ↩ + 

What a dull corner!⁠ … and what disagreeable pictures! ↩ + 

Disagreeable. ↩ + 

The life of a woman. ↩ + 

Maiden. ↩ + 

Wife. ↩ + 

Young Mother. ↩ + 

Widow. ↩ + 

Angels. ↩ + 

Truly! You are a poor thing. ↩ + 

That does not matter.⁠ … A grand woman⁠—the stature of an empress, the figure of Juno, but a person I should not desire either for wife, daughter, or sister. But no matter. You must not cast another glance in that direction. ↩ + 

For the good of the poor. ↩ + 

Miss, you are sad. + 

Sir, I have very good reason to be. + 

You are heartsick and out of sorts. ↩ + 

How busy Mademoiselle is! ↩ + 

Giant-stride. ↩ + 

One, two, three. ↩ + 

My dear. ↩ + 

Unsociable saint. ↩ + 

Thank goodness! ↩ + 

British bear. ↩ + 

There is something for you. ↩ + 

Are you purposefully insulting me? ↩ + 

Won’t you? ↩ + 

We can only be young once. ↩ + 

I understand: we know what a “friend” means. Good-day, Miss! ↩ + 

I see plainly that you despise me and my property. ↩ + 

Garret. ↩ + 

A sly air. ↩ + 

There is someone for you in the salon. ↩ + 

Poppy. ↩ + 

About that big John. ↩ + 

We two have waded in the brook + 

From morning sun till dinner-time [noon], + 

But seas between us broad have roared + 

Since auld lang syne. + 

And surely you’ll buy your flagon, + 

And surely I’ll buy mine; + 

And we’ll taste a cup of kindness yet + 

For auld lang syne. + 

↩ + 

With all my heart, my dear: I willingly give you permission. Since you have been in my house you have always worked admirably, with zeal and prudence: and you have a very good right to enjoy yourself. Go out as much as you wish. I am very pleased at your choice of acquaintance; it is modest, worthy, and commendable. ↩ + 

There is⁠ … something very remarkable in the English character. ↩ + 

I could not explain “how;” but, in a word, the English have ideas of their own about friendship, and love, and everything. But there is one thing, they don’t need watching. ↩ + 

That is what I will do. ↩ + 

Devotion⁠ … contemplativeness. ↩ + 

What do you think of it? ↩ + 

You alluring flirt!⁠ … you have a sad, submissive, pensive manner; but that is not your true character, I tell you: Savage! with heart aflame, and lightening hidden in your eyes! + 

Yes; I have a heart aflame, and rightly! ↩ + 

Dear friend, I forgive you. ↩ + 

Well done!⁠ … See, the sun begins to shine! Say “mon ami,” then. + 

Monsieur Paul, I forgive you. ↩ + 

My God! my God!⁠ … What will become of me? Monsieur is going to kill me, I am sure; for he is terribly angry! ↩ + 

From this minute!⁠—the class is prohibited. The first one who opens this door or passes this partition will be hung⁠—even if it were Madame Beck herself! ↩ + 

Spectacles. ↩ + 

Oh dear! I’m quite done-up! ↩ + 

What do you want with me? ↩ + 

Sir,⁠ … I want the impossible, things unheard of before. ↩ + 

There!⁠ … I am widowed of my spectacles! ↩ + 

A strong woman⁠—a terrible Englishwoman⁠—a virago. ↩ + 

There’s Monsieur! ↩ + 

Don’t move. ↩ + 

You won’t have me for your neighbour,⁠ … You give yourself fine airs; you treat me as a pariah;⁠ … Good! I’ll settle this business! ↩ + 

All stand up, young ladies! ↩ + 

Is that far enough away? ↩ + 

Monsieur is responsible for it. ↩ + 

You know very well that it is not so. It is you who have created this immense void: I had nothing to do with it. ↩ + 

A drama of Williams Shackspire; the false god,⁠ … of those stupid pagans, the English. ↩ + 

Obstinate character. ↩ + 

Fury. ↩ + 

Silence! this minute! ↩ + 

Quick as gunpowder! ↩ + 

Temper⁠ … heat. ↩ + 

In the air. ↩ + 

Doll-like colours, a nose more or less well formed. ↩ + 

Embroidered collars. ↩ + 

One more gewgaw. ↩ + 

Knick-nacks. ↩ + 

Gay fashions. ↩ + 

We’ll pass the ribbon! ↩ + 

Birthday. ↩ + 

Silk dress. ↩ + 

Enjoy a little pleasure. ↩ + 

Good morning, my friends. ↩ + 

Is that all? ↩ + 

Map of the world. ↩ + 

Long live England, History and Heroes! Down with France, Fiction and Fops! ↩ + 

Then I shall not be here. ↩ + 

So be it! ↩ + 

I detest thee, my lad! ↩ + 

God preserve you from it! ↩ + 

Comfits. ↩ + 

Cake. ↩ + 

At present it’s an accomplished fact. ↩ + 

How truly beautiful he is, Miss, that young doctor! What eyes⁠—what a look! See! My heart is quite touched by it! ↩ + 

That brazen-face girl, that shameless creature. ↩ + 

She only speaks truth. ↩ + 

Ah! you think so? + 

Why, of course. ↩ + 

There is nothing to do with me: I don’t care about it. ↩ + 

Demon-like pride. ↩ + 

I see you from here. ↩ + 

That commanding woman. ↩ + 

Velvet paw. ↩ + 

I advise you to get yourself invited. ↩ + 

What’s that? You are playing tricks with me? ↩ + 

It’s the pink dress! ↩ + 

And Miss Lucy is as great a coquette as ten Parisian women.⁠ … Did ever any one see such an Englishwoman? Just look at her bonnet, her gloves, and her boots! ↩ + 

Courage!⁠—as a matter of fact I am not sorry, perhaps I am even glad that you have beautified yourself for my poor holiday. + 

But my dress is not beautiful, sir⁠—it is only neat. + 

I like neatness. ↩ + 

The woods and by-paths. ↩ + 

Ham⁠ … sweets. ↩ + 

Singy housewives. ↩ + 

Give me your hand! ↩ + 

Little sister. ↩ + 

Yet I have been very severe, very exacting with you. ↩ + 

Where is Miss Lucy? ↩ + 

She is in bed. ↩ + 

Medley. ↩ + 

What do you want with me? ↩ + 

And as for her felicitations, I laugh at them. ↩ + 

Then, you must know my noble pupil, my Paul? ↩ + 

She is a queer creature, isn’t she? ↩ + 

Oh, the queer little hunchback!⁠ … And just imagine that she hates me because she thinks me in love with my cousin Paul; that little saint who dare not stir unless his confessor give him permission! ↩ + 

Be it I, or be it another. ↩ + 

A silly enough person in my opinion. ↩ + 

Pure as a lily, according to what he says. ↩ + 

Forget angels, hunchbacks, and especially Professors⁠—and good evening! ↩ + 

Forget Professors. ↩ + 

Great heavens! ↩ + 

I know nothing of it. ↩ + 

We are acting in the interests of truth. We don’t want to pain you. ↩ + 

A scoffing and heartless creature. ↩ + 

And you, Miss? you are neat and delicate, and fearfully hard-hearted to boot. ↩ + 

I make my own bed and do the household work myself. ↩ + 

And then? ↩ + 

Is it not true? ↩ + 

You little exacting creature! ↩ + 

Too much sensibility and sympathy. ↩ + 

Tell me then, little sister. ↩ + 

Oh, that pains me! ↩ + 

Mary, Queen of Heaven. ↩ + 

O God, be merciful to me a sinner! ↩ + 

A compound of wit and grace. ↩ + 

How sweet is repose! How precious calm happiness! ↩ + 

Dear little friend!⁠ … sweet consoler! ↩ + 

How pale you are! You must be very ill, Miss! ↩ + 

Frolics. ↩ + 

Where are they? Why don’t they come? ↩ + 

Ladies and gentlemen,⁠ … where then is Justine Marie? ↩ + 

There she is!⁠ … there is Justine Marie coming! ↩ + 

The little one is going to help me⁠—is it not so? ↩ + 

Why yes, I will help you with all my heart. You shall do whatever you please with me, godfather. ↩ + 

Godfather. ↩ + 

Abduction of a minor. ↩ + 

My husband. ↩ + 

Leave me! ↩ + 

Get out! ↩ + 

Woman!⁠ … Woman! get out this instant. ↩ + 

Gently⁠—gently. ↩ + 

Don’t be in a hurry. ↩ + 

Here we are! ↩ + 

Day-school for young ladies.⁠ … Manageress, Miss Lucy Snowe. ↩ + 