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71 20 regardait toujours Tartarin: cf. note to 11 12. 71 21 prit la mouche: transl. 'took offense. Prendre la mouche = 'to seize the fly, 'to seize a slight occasion for becoming angry, 'to become vexed easily. 71 26 leur gaine: cf. note to 29 11.
They will see in it, and not unnaturally, nothing but a successful attempt of the revolutionary part to degrade Monarchy, supported by English jealousy of French influence. I am not at all surprised that Spaniards should view with suspicion any proceeding whatever on the part of France, and that they should imagine there was some intention to slight the Regent and his authority.
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