concept
"Je vous prie" (French: "I beg you")
Je vous prie
also: Же ву при, Zhe voo pri
A French courtesy phrase Gryabov garbles at the English governess in a comic, doomed attempt at cross-lingual politeness; French was the customary second language of the Russian gentry, not English.
Reading notes
- A Daughter of Albion §26 Zhe voo pri
Gryabov's garbled attempt at the French phrase "Je vous prie" ("I beg you"), French being the language of the Russian gentry's drawing-room, comically misapplied here to an Englishwoman who does not understand it either.