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1. 18. vous exposer ..aller chanter. In exclamations and questions of appeal, an infinitive without a préposition is common, in French as in English. Cf. p. 68, 1. 13.

1. 25, en sœur, 'as a sister.' So agir en empereur, ' to act as an emperor, imperially,' parler en maître, &c.

1. 30. je n'y rnanque jamais, ' I never fail to do so.' Notice that :

{(i) with the Ace. means 'to miss,' in the sensé of failing to attain.

(2) with the Gen. means 'to be without,' ' to be short of.' (3) with the Dat. means 'to fail,' not to do one's duty to.

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1.36. 7na défense, 'my prohibition.' So Défense de futner,^ Smok'mg forbidden.'

1. 37. // s^agii de vos jours, ' It is a question of your life.' ' Your life is at stai<e.'

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1. 2. Tout est à craindre. After the verb être the French idiom is to use tlie Infinitive Active, where in English we employ the passive.

1. 6. rusé. The word was originally reûser, a hunting term, used of the doubles of a hare to escape the dogs.

avec cela, ' along with that. '

1. 15. aussi va-t-il. In sentences beginning with aussi (so), à peine, peut-être, du moins, au moins, encore, toujours, the verb is put before its subject.

1. 18. qui n'en peuvent mais. 'Who cannot help it,' lit. ' who are capable of no more,' ?nais being from the Latin magis 'rnore.'