Poznámky
Les eaux — the waters: mineral spa treatments, a standard prescription for respiratory and general ailments in the 19th century. Marie has been advised to take a cure at a spa town, which her father is attempting to delay or redirect toward Biarritz (a fashionable seaside resort, not a mineral spa). ↩
Roubles: Russian currency, indicating that the Bashkirtseff family maintained financial assets and property in Russia. Three hundred roubles was a considerable sum. ↩
Jesuitical half-sentences: Marie uses "Jesuit" as an epithet for cunning, equivocating speech — a common 19th-century anticlerical usage implying clever evasiveness rather than sincere engagement. ↩
"The impudence I!" — In English in the original. Marie uses this emphatic English exclamation as a rhetorical intensifier. ↩