Note 5 — PREMIER ÉPISODE
Reading edition · Edition 2
13 7 Té! vé! dialectal for tiens, vois, used as exclamations, 'Well, well!'--adieu: in Southern France occasionally (as here and 64 4) a greeting ('hello'), though ordinarily, as in Northern France, a parting salutation ('good-by'). The Southerner prefixes an exclamation which Daudet writes sometimes et as here and sometimes hé, ('hey') as in 64 4.