Endnotes

Endnotes

1. Is that my governess? ↩︎

2. Yes, to be sure. ↩︎

3. The League of the Rats: fable by La Fontaine. ↩︎

4. What news? what news? I pray you, speak. ↩︎

5. Ladies, dinner is served! … I’m starved! ↩︎

6. As an aside. ↩︎

7. Come back soon, my friend, my dear Mademoiselle Jeanette. ↩︎

8. That must mean … there is a present for me in it, and maybe for you, too, Mademoiselle. Monsieur has spoken of you: he asked me my governess’ name, and if she were small, rather thin and somewhat pale. I said yes, because it’s true, isn’t it, Mademoiselle? ↩︎

9. There’s a present in your little trunk for Mademoiselle Eyre, isn’t there? ↩︎

10. Presents. ↩︎

11. Little trunk. ↩︎

12. My box! my box! ↩︎

13. Be quiet, child; do you understand? ↩︎

14. Oh, heavens, how beautiful it is! ↩︎

15. Little nun. ↩︎

16. And I hold to it. ↩︎

17. I must try it on … at once! ↩︎

18. Does my dress not suit me? … and my slippers? and my stockings? I feel like dancing! ↩︎

19. Thank you a thousand times for your kindness, Monsieur. ↩︎

20. Mama acted just that way, didn’t she, Monsieur? ↩︎

21. Just like this. ↩︎

22. Deep passion. ↩︎

23. Athlete’s figure. ↩︎

24. Crunching. ↩︎

25. My angel. ↩︎

26. Male beauty. ↩︎

27. Little girl. ↩︎

28. What is it, Mademoiselle? … Your fingers are quivering, and your cheeks are red: red like cherries! ↩︎

29. Out of fashion. ↩︎

30. They’re changing. ↩︎

31. At mama’s, … when people came, I followed them everywhere, to the drawing rooms and the bedrooms; often I watched the maids dress the ladies and arrange their hair, and it was so much fun; that’s the way one learns. ↩︎

32. Yes, Mademoiselle; we haven’t eaten for five or six hours. ↩︎

33. And what a shame [that would be]! ↩︎

34. Could I take but one of these wonderful flowers, Mademoiselle? Only to complete my dress. ↩︎

35. Pretty, but irregular. ↩︎

36. Greetings, ladies. ↩︎

37. Father character in tragedy and high comedy. ↩︎

38. Too bad! ↩︎

39. The tender passion. ↩︎

40. Beware of this! ↩︎

41. Monsieur Rochester is back! ↩︎

42. The right opportunity. ↩︎

43. Good evening. ↩︎

44. Ready to love her little English mother. ↩︎

45. Oh, how little comfort there will be for her! ↩︎

46. A real liar. ↩︎

47. Fairy-tales. ↩︎

48. Fairies do not exist anyway, and even if they did: ↩︎

49. In order to keep me in countenance. ↩︎

50. And one stepped forth who, to look upon, was like a starlight night. ↩︎

51. I weigh your thoughts in the balance of my wrath! and your deeds with the weight of my fury! ↩︎

52. Still young. ↩︎