Toutefois. Do not confuse with toujours

18-19. regretta d’. Note that de is used after any word of emotion (joy, fear, regret, etc.) to indicate the source of the emotion; it really means ‘from’ in such a case.

Page 12. — 6. dont = de + a relative pronoun. It has the various shades of meaning of de (‘of,’ ‘from,’ ‘by,’ ‘with,’ etc.), which can be learned only by careful observation. The meaning of dont in any given place is determined by that of the word on which it depends; here dont, dependent on brodée, = with which, because we say embroidered with.

13. à, with. This descriptive use of à is one of the commonest of its many uses.

31. qu’en pensez-vous? En = de a personal pronoun; see note on line 6. For penser de and penser à, see Vocabulary.

Page 13. — 6. défendent, have defended. The present tense indicates that the action still continues; depuis indicates that it began in the past.

7. leur . . . pouvoir, owe it to them to be able. Devoir, when followed by de, has its primary meaning ‘to owe.’

32. il n’en faut point approcher, you must not approach it. The negative with falloir almost always modifies logically the dependent infinitive, so that the literal meaning here is ‘it is necessary not to approach.’ To express ‘it is not necessary,’ say il n’est pas nécessaire, as on page 19, line 14.

Page 14. — I. Ondines. The Undines, or water-spirits, seem to have sprung from Northern mythology. The Undine obtained a soul if she bore a child by a human father.