282. (p. 560) coffin. Ominous word – not usually used in connection with the cases in which pipes were kept.
283. (p. 564) Comme vous y allez! Steady on!
284. (p. 566) suivante. Servant.
285. (p. 566) capisce. You understand.
286. (p. 566) Peccato! A pity!
288. (p. 583) the huge fretted palace. The Palace of Westminster, the seat of the Houses of Parliament.
289. (p. 583) David. The story of David’s fight against the giant Goliath is told in 1 Samuel 17.
290. (p. 586) es kann sein. It’s possible.
291. (p. 588) nicht wahr? Don’t they?
* J. M. and H. R. Dent, The House of Dent 1888–1938, Dent, 1938.
* Henry James, The Art of the Novel, edited by R. P. Blackmur, C. Scribners, 1934, P. 53.
* Leon Edel, Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843–70; The Conquest of London, 1870–82; The Middle Years, 1882–95, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.
* Henry James, A Little Tour in France, J. R. Osgood, 1885.