SAM WELLER IN THE WITNESS-BOX
161, " Appelez Samuel Weller."
Il était tout à fait inutile d'appeler Samuel Weller, car Samuel Weller monta lestement dans la tribune au moment où son nom fut prononcé. Il posa son chapeau sur le plancher, ses bras hur la balustrade, et examina 5 la cour, à vol d'oiseau, avec un air remarquablement gracieux et jovial.
Quel est votre nom, monsieur?" demanda le juge. Sam Weller, milord," répliqua ce gentleman.
** L'écrivez-vous avec un V ou un W ? " 10
" Ça dépend du goût et de la fantaisie de celui qui écrit, milord. Je n'ai eu cette occasion qu'une fois ou deux dans ma vie, mais je Téoi is avec un Y."
Ici on entendit dans la galerie une voix qui criait—
" C'est bien ça, Samivel ; c'est bien ça. Mettez un 15 V, milord."
"Qui est-ce qui se permet d'apostropher la cour," s'écria le petit juge en levant les yeux. " Huissier I "
" Oui, milord."
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20 *' Amenez cette personne ici, sur le champ.** " Oui, milord."
Mais comme l'huissier ne put trouFer la personne, il ne l'amena pas, et après une grande commotion, tous les assistants, qui s'étaient levés pour regarder le 25 coupable, se rassirent.
Au-^sit-ôt que l'indignation du petit juge lui permit de parler, il se tourna vers le témoin et lui dit — "Savez-vous qui c'était, monsieur?" *' Je suspecte un brin que c'était mon père, milord.** 80 "Le voyez-vous maintenant?"
" Non, je ne le vois pas, milord," répliqua Sam, en attachant ses yeux à la lanterne par laquelle la salle était éclairée.
" Si vous aviez pu me le montrer, je l'aurais fait 86 empoigner sur le champ," reprit l'irascible petit juge. 162. Sam fit un sulut plein de reconnaissance et se retourna vers M. Buzfuz, avec son air de bonne humeur imperturbable,
" Maintenant, monsieur Weller," dit M. Buzfuz. 40 " Voilà, monsieur," répliqua Sam.
" Vous êtes, je crois, au service de M. Pickwick, le défendeur en cette cause? Parlez, s'il vous plaît, monsieiar Weller."
"Oui, monsieur, je vais parler. Je suis au service 45 de ce gentleman ici, et c'est un très-bon service."
" Pas grand'chose à faire, et beaucoup à gagner, je suppose ? " dit l'avocat, d'un air farceur.
" Ah, oui I suffisamment à gagner, mon>ieur, comme disait le soldat, quand on le condamna à cent cinquante 50 coups de fouet."
**Nous n'avons pas besoin de ce qu'a dit le Boldat, monsieur, ni toute autre personne," interrompit le juge. *' Très bien, milord.'*
163. "Vous rappelez-vous," dit M. Buzfuz, en reprenant la parole, ** von g rappelez- vous quelque ohose 55 de remarquable qui arriva dans la matinée où vous fûtes engagé par le défendeur? Yojonsl Monsieur Weller ? "
Oui, monsieur/'
Ayez la bonté de dire au jury oe que c'était.** 60
J'ai eu un habillement complet tout neuf, oe matin-là, messieurs du jury, et c'était une circonstance très remarquable pour moi, dans ce temps-là."
Ces mots excitèrent un éclat de rire général, mais le petit juge, regardant avec colère paivdeesus son bureau : 65 Monsieur," dit-il, ''je vous engage à prendre garde." O'est ce que M. Pickwick m'a dit dans le temps, milord ; et j'ai pris bien garde à conserver ces habitslà, véritablement, milord." ^ ** Vous pouvez descendre, monsieur*** 70
EXERCISES FÇR RETRANSLATION.
The9e exercises are irUended to iUusiraie^ systematicaUy^ elementary Accidence and Synttw. Each piece is numbered to eorreepond ioith the piece in the text upon which it is based. When a u>ord or construction is used which occurs in a previous piece of the text^ reference is made to the number of that piece. Bound brackets contain hints for substitution ; square brackets enclose words which are to be omitted in trarulaiion. For the convenience of the teacher^ a rough indication is given at the head of each exercise of the principal points illustrated. Occasionally, when the text does not give sufficient models^ examples have been placed at the head of an exercise. It is suggested that these exercises may first be done in doss under the guidance of a teacher»
Avoir ; être ; verbs in -er,
|g4. The spring nights wet the roses with dew. (The) spring willingly grants the dew to the flowers. The night thanks the rose for its perfume. The roses are the children of the spring ; the moss roses are the 5 dearest of its children. You are- looking-at the rose tree ; you are-thanking the rose for its perfume. The most beautiful adornment of a queen is an adornment
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of roses. The angels give the flowers thi most beautiful ornaments. The most beautiful flowers are the dearest to the children. 10
Avoir; être ; verbs in -er,
166. ^® sailors had a black bear on board the corvette. The i^ailors took off the bear's muzzle and gave the animal (the) liberty. They had met a Savoyard. The Savoyards carry an ape on the arm and lead a big bear by a chain. The sailors went 15 home ; the bear went up on deck in company with the sailors. Instead of a poodle the corvette's sailors had a bear. The bear used-to-lick the hands of the sailors. The bear used-to-accompany the sailors. One day the bear was-accompanying the sailors. A Savoyard 20 parsed. At the sight uf this false friend and of his chain the bear showed his (the) fangs.
(77, 78.) Verba in -ir ; negative ienseê.
166. ^® ^^ ^^ thrown on the island one of the frigate's boats. The sailors had thrown the tiheep into the boat at the moment when the sea was-s wallow- 25 ing-up the frignte. In less than an hour the inhabitants of the island were-roahting the sheep. In less than two hours they had eaten the skin. The gentlest sea swallows up the crews of great frigates. The sailors of Brest have not their equals. The men of Brest are 30 \he best sailors in (see 78, 1. 19) the whole French navy. The French navy swallows-up all the best sailors if Brest. The BeUona was the most superb vessel in
tlie French navy. The French navy had not two 85 frigates like (to) this superb vessel from Brest to Toulon.
(79, 80.) Verbs in -re.
167. '^^^ trees are-shedding over the stranger a delicious perfume (74). A savage more hideous than the others spreads a palm leaf over the head of the
40 stranger. An orange sheds a delicious perfume. Two savages are-fanning the stranger. One offers to the stranger a delicious orange ; the other puts to his lips a cup of lemonade. The others stretched on the grass were-examining the stranger. These magnificent trees
45 are-spreading over the stranger a vault of leaves. The king of the country is-waiting-for the stranger at the palace. The savages are- waiting- for their king at the foot of a magnificent tree. Some were-waitingfor the king under a tree on which (79) a bird was-
50 singing. The others were-eating the oranges of the country.
Conditional sentences ; verbs in -er«
|g3. If ^6 ^^ & spur, we would piick the ass, and the a^s would go on. We will go-back to the house ; we will ask-for a pin. If I had a stout pin, I should 55 have a spur. If we had the pin, we would stick the head into my shoe. The head of the pin would be inside the shoe and the point would be outside. If I had had a spur, I should not have asked-for the pins. If I had had a spur and if you had had a switch, we
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should not have asked-for the pins. If Paul had had 60 a switch and if Sophie had had a spur, the ass wnnLd have asked-for a tougher skin. If we gaye the pins to Paul and to Sophie, they would prick the ass. The best spur is (c'est) (the) kindness (74).
(82, 83.) Some idiomatie uses of avoir and être.
169. ^^^^ ^^^ Thomas had mounted (81) the ass, 55 and thq^ were-coming-up at a gallop in front of the kitchen. Sophie was afraid. She had remained behind. The ass was-gal loping so fast that Paul and Thomas were afraid. The ass shot Thomas (to) ten paces from him ; Paul got-down. Thomas remained 7Q on the grass, dazed by the fall. His hands were grazed. Sophie had arrived (auxiliary être) in front
of the kitchen. The ass had become (78) free; the pin had become a spur. Sophie and Paul had arrived. They were afraid ; but they were delighted. 75
(84-86.) Verbs conjugated like (1) dormir^ (2) souffrir.
170. The king is-sleeping on a bed; the curtains of his bed are of red silk. The poor man (* man poor' = not rich) who hews the stones issleeping on the grass ; he does not suffer from the heat. The princes are sleeping on the grass ; they are-suffering 30 from the heat of the sun. The poor man suffers from his task and he sleeps well (bien). The rich man suffers from his task and he does not sleep. He would have suffered from his hard task if a cloud had not hidden the light of the sun. The horsemen would have 85
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covered the king's head if the king had complained of the heat of the sun. If a king had arrived (169), the rich man would have sighed. A cloud had covered the sun ; the poor man was-sleeping. If you slept, you 90 would not suffer from your task.
(87, 88.) Indicative Future; Conditional senieneeê; verbs in -ir^ -re,
171, The rain vrill fall and the grass will-growgreen-a^ain. The valleys are*growing-green-again. The workmen will accomplish their ta»<k. If rain fell the workmen would not accomplish their task. The
95 sun would descend from the sky if an angel fulfilled the prayers of this workman. The king (86) will descend to the lot of a hewer of stones. The workman would descend from the rock if the rain fell. The workmen descended from the rock. The hammers of 100 these workmen are more powerful than the rock. They stiuck the rook with their hammers; they detached from the rock two hig piecea The angels will fulfil the prayer» of these workmen.
(89, 90.) Time; ne . . . pereonne,
172. î'rom the break of (the) day the duke's 105 officers were-seeking De Courcy. He had given his
orders to iiis officers about six o'clock. The prisoner uttered a frightful cry, and during the whole day he listened-to nobody. The duke's officers threw the prisoner on to his bed in spite of his piteous cries. All 110 night the prisoner utters these frightful cries ; all the morning Çmaiinée; ci. journée) the duke torments his
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officers. '* Drown the prîsoiier and throw his body into the garden," ordered the dnke. *' We drowned the prisoner last night and we will bury his body this morning," was the answer. The officers looked -for the 11 ^ duke all day long in the garden, but they found nobody. Nobody looked-for the duke in his bed. He had eaten nothing (78).
(91, 92.) Conjunctive Pronouns as ohjecU used singly.
173. '^^^ women asked whether the birds loved you. The birds love you ; you do not kill them. This 120 adventure would not have happened to them if they had not taken the nests of these birds. I had related to them the perils of these two ohildren. These adventures would not have happened to them if they had listened-to me. The birds would love you if yon 125 did not carry-home their eggs. The eggs of sea-birds are pretty ; the ohildren are very fond of them. The good wives had heard the cries of the child ; they were asking whether the other children were not killing him. The women had arrived in front of the house ISo and were forming a orowd.
En; y.
174*. ^^ child fell from the cliffs ; he had brought back from them a quantity of eggs. These cliffs ai-e perpendicular; the sea-birds nest on them. Nothing is prettier than these eggs ; the children bring back ^o^ a quantity of them. Gilliatt had fallen (cf. 77) from the clifOs ; he had fastened to them a quantity of scar^
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crows. The buffaloes are innamerable. I liave seen a great herd of thenu They stopped the locomotive, 140 and opposed to it an inanrmoantable barrier. Sometimes an army of buffaloes defiles across the railway. I have seen several herds of them.
Conjunctive Pronouns ; verbs tn -otr.
175 > "^^^ sailor rests bin foot on the foot-rope. He seizes the sail with both (the two) hands and bends it
145 to the yard. The foot-rope is below the yard ; one rests the feet on it. The sailors were bending the sail to the yard; the crowd was watching them. The sailors caught the foot-rope and remained hanging to it. It was running a frightful risk, but the sailors
1^0 did not recoil from it. From the yards one perceives the sea at an enormouH depth below the feet. The sailors mount the ligging, ami perceive a vessel in the distance (93). We mounted the rigging, and we perceived the ship.
(95, 96.) Relative Pronouns,
155 176. ^^® ™^° ^^^ ^^ mounting the rigging was bringing a rope. He was measuring with his eye the rope which he was bringing. The rope with which he had secured the sailor seemed a thread to tho^e who were looking. Tlie man whom the sailors had hauled on to
160 the yard was exhausted. The anxiety with which the crowd was looking at the bailors encouraged them. The btiat into which the sailors had thrown the convict had disappeared. The sailors sought for the
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c<invict till evening, but they did not recover him. The convict whom the sailors had sought for had dis- 165 appeared. People (on) heard at a distance (93) the cries with which the crowd was encouraging the sailors. They {on) were looking with anxiety at the gnlf over which the sailors were suspended,
Relative Pronouns. Recapitulation»
177- ^'^® stranger in the green coat, who had played 170 in the West Indies, ate and talked uniuterrnptedly ; but he did not play. The exclamations, by means of which he expressed his approbation, were very flattering to the players. Mr. Jingle sent back all the colonel's balls to the natives, who picked them up. 175 'I'he natives stopped the balls which the colonel did not pick up. A ball upset Mr. Jingle's stumps ; the natives picked him up and carried him away. Mr. Jingle had demolished the colunel ; they (on) carried him away. The bat with which he played burnt like 180 a glowing coal. The colonel was indefatigable also; Mr. Jingle had sent back to him five hundred and sixty balls.
Conjunctive Pronounê,
178. This story is very old. I offer it to them because the old stories are good. Your books are 185 di> ty ; your brothers were looking at them with anger. Th-dse books are very old; but you have stuck the leaves in them again. These books are very dirty ; I ofiiar them to him with sadness. Mrs. Delmis' chUdren
190 ^^^ have a canary. Mrs. Pierrefond's servant will bring it to them. The children came in, but thej did not distnrb me. They were tearing ont the leaves from a book which Mrs. Delmis had brought them. They will thank her for the book, but she will not
195 offer them the canaries. The book is very dirty : the children will offer it to her, but she will not thank them. The cage is old. The children will offer it to her. She will thank them for it
Hy a ; voilà ; questions.
iSzampIes : Votre ami a-inU ouvert la porte f
Comment votre ami a-t-tl ouvert la porte f
179. There is Miss Emily I The canaries have 200 played me a trick. Have I not shut the garden gate ? Are there not two birds in the drawing-room. Gribouille? Ah I There is the cage \ But the door of the cage has been opened (say one has, etc.). Ah ! there are the canaries I How have the birds opened the 205 door of the cage? Where are the birds? Have the canaries not been caught (say has not one) ? Are the birds in the garden ? Is not the cage in the drawingroom, and are not the birds in the garden ? There is a cage in the drawing-room, and there are two birds in 210 the cage. But Gribouille will open the door of the cage, and there will be two birds in the garden. Thene they are 1
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Est-ce que? Principal verb future^ subordinate future,
180. " Am I scolding you ? I tell you that, if you have let the canaries loose, you bave done a stupid thing. Have you let the birds loose? You will not 215 catch them." "Have these birds cost you much, miss?*' "Have I scolded you? The canaries have not cost me much. I am sorry for your stupidity."
** I will shut the garden gate." "Will the birds come in when you (shall) have shut the gate? Let us go 220 indoors." ^' I will go indoors when I (shall) have caught the birds. I shall scold them when they (shall) have come indoors." ' "I shall not scold you. The birds will never come home again."
(106, 107.) Dates. Recapitulation of Relative Pronouns.
181. On-the 10th of May, 1769, Cook was appointed 225 master of the Grampus; on the 15th of May, 1759, be was appointed master of the Mercury. Cook deserved the goodwill of the brothers Walker. He had served his apprenticeship in their service. The rank which
he received was the rank of mate. If he had entered 230 the navy he would have received the rank of master. On the 3rd of June, Cook and the astronomers who were under his orders observed the transit of the planet Venus over the sun. On the 8th of October, Cook sighted an unknown land, which the astronomers 235 named Terra Australie Incognita. It was New-Zealand. Cook had deserved the goodwill of his superiors, by meauR of which (97) he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
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(lOS-110.) Celui; eeUi'Iàf ceku-d; quelqa^u»,
240 182. Somebody attracted the natives by a friendly sign. Some of the natives came on board. All those who had oome on board were examining the vessel. He who was examining the dogs had interesting features and a black beard. The dogs caused him a
245 lively surprise ; he designated them by an unknown term. The pigs and the cats were unknown to him ; the former were the biggest of the animals ; the latter were the best proportioned. Some of the marines had loaded their guns. Those of the sailors who occupied
250 the boats had not loaded their guns. The cries of the sailors were terrible; those of the islanders were not more terrible. Tho latter uttered a terrible howL
(111-113.) Becapttulation ; aucun • • • n«.
183. ^^^^^ ^^® ^^ ^^^ great voyagers has avoided bloodshed. Cook was [the] victim of a humanity
255 greater than that of the others. Some of the great voyagers have massacred the natives pitilessly. The troop which was on the shore was smaller than that which occupied the boats. Cook called to the boats in which the sailors were embarking the wounded
2G0 soldiers. The lieutenant had received a dangerous wound ; those which the soldiers were receiving were more dangerous. The former killed the man who had wounded him; the latter were massacred at the moment when they distinctly perceived the boats.
265 Some of the wounds which the sailors received were
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dangerous. Not one of the natives looked the commander in the face. The commander fell; no one perceived him distinctly.
(114, 115.) JTd • • • plus ; fi0 . . . que ; cê guL
184. C^^®) travellers no longer conform themselves (se) to the customs of the country in which 270 they find themselves. I will relate to you what has happened to me in Russia. What happened to me in Bussia caused me no slight terror. I was in the middle
of a forest. I had only a single horse. (The) hunger only rendered the wolves swifter. What troubled me ^'^^ most (this) was that my horse was very weak. I no longer whipped him. (The) terror was only urging him too quickly. (The) terror was devouring his strenuth. There happened what I dared no longer hope for. Seize the opportunity I What has happened 280 to me is what I dared only hope for.
(116, 117.) Récapitulation,
185. ^0* * sound indicated to me the presence of a village. While I was continuing niv joiihey, the snow was Khroudiiig all the i*oads. All that I perceived when I reopened my eyes was a belfry. All 286 (th"Be) who have travelled in Russia have found the roads shrouded in snow. Whnt em^'arra^ises them most (this) is the darkness. All that they , perceive is a roal ^hronded in snow. They have found in Russia
all that embarrasses a traveller most. VV hat was their 290 astonishment, when they perceived that what they
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bad taken for a belfry was a tree! When tbey reopened tlieir eyes tbey no longer perceived a belfry, a circumstance (tbat) wbicb caused tbem no slight 295 terror.
Interrogative and Negative Tenees wiih Conjunctive
PronowM.
186. "Have I not told (46) you wbat we bave seen in Russia ? " " You have told it me once. Will you not tell it us this morning ? " " Have you not sent bim the duck which I killed this morning?"
300 '* I should not have sent it bim if I bad met him ; I should have given it him. If 1 had killed the teal, I would have sent him a brace of them." ''If they had not got up (say were not gone off) at the moment when the ducks were getting up, you would have
805 killed them, and you would have sent him a brace of them. They have sent you another gun ; if they bad sent it you this morning, you would have killed the moorhens." ^ Then I should not have given bim the duck ; I should have given it to you. If be bad not
310 lost the gun, be would have sent it me this morning." ^ Replace by a ball what you have drawn from the ban el of your gun."
(120-122.) Disjunctive Pronouns, Adterhs of Quantity,
187. ^^^ morning Carlo and I (we) had remained in the dining-room. Carlo, for his part (he), had
315 nothing more to wish for. He bad drunk so much cream that be looked at me with much benevolence.
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I, for my part (I), had drunk the milk skimmed for him. I happy I I had too many vexations to avenge. Carlo had the cream, as for me (I) I had only the skimmed milk. It was too disagreeable for 320 me I I should have had nothing to avenge if Carlo had not had so much cream. How many times had we remained alone in the dining-room I If Carlo had not remained alone with me, I should not have caused his mistress so many vexations. Many animals would 325 have bitten me. Carlo, for his part (lie), shut his (the) eyes and licked the hand with which I was shearing him. If there had not been a pair of scissors on the table I should have done nothing.
(123-125.) Disjunctive Pronouns, Le même.
188. 3^® ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ (o^- ^2^) ^^o ^^^ 330 scissors. My aunt would have come herself, if she
had not wanted to humiliate me. I did not struggle
with her. She sheared me (dative) the same side,
which she had sheared poor Carlo (cf. 125). If my
aunt had come herself, she would have humiliated me 335
before him. Scaicely had we gone up to my room
when (cf. 124) my aunt came. She had Carlo with
her. Miss Barbara had laid my tress on the table
in front of her. I immediately cut the tress on the
other side myself. The vexation which this adventure 340
cau-ed me (put the subject after the verb), gave Carlo
himself a feeling of remorse.
DonU
Examples : Vhomme dont la force wnu itonne, Uhomme dont vou8 admirez la force.
189. ^^^ locomotive, the driver of which had got down, was stopping ia front of a signal. The signal
345 in front of which the train was stopping was put at red. The travellers had got down. A man was debating a question with the driver. It (this) was a station-master, whose signal put at red was blocking the way. The station-master, by whose (not dont ;
850 see Grammar) report the bridge threatened to fall in« was frightened. Nothing disturbed the driver. The travellers no longer heard anything but the voice of the driver, who was threatening the guard. The bridge, the passage of which they (on) were risking,
855 was five miles off the next station. *' If you are afraid, gentlemen," said the driver to the passengers, ** walk forward. I for my part shall risk the passage of the bridge.'*
(129, 130.) Dont.
190. Th® tribe whose origin I am relating to you, 360 inhabited a 8ubterranean village. Some of the Mandans
arrived one day at the surface of the soil. A vine whose roots had struck very deeply, reached them. Half the tribe reached the territory of which their friends had brought back so enthusiastic a description. 306 But the vine, whose roots had improvised a ladder foi them, gave way. The man under whose (not dont;
