ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation; final cause &c (intention) 620; les dessous des cartes [Fr.]; undercurrents. rudiment.

Secret N. secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum^, mystery; latency &c 526; Asian mystery^; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes

This is quite sufficient for working with carte-de-visite portraits.

" Le voyageur, furieux, fait un vacarme effroyable, et l'hôtelier impassible lui porte sur sa carte: "6 réaux de tapage.

" Surely we all know men of this kind, and the consternationcomparable only to that of M. Jourdain under the impromptu carte-and-tierce of his servant-maidwhich their sturdy if informal dialectic will often spread among many kinds of "learned societies."

Although he was only in his middle thirties, from his late teens he had been granted virtual carte blanche in his research.

" Le voyageur, furieux, fait un vacarme effroyable, et l'hôtelier impassible lui porte sur sa carte: "6 réaux de tapage.