que serait-ce donc, ' how would it be then

1. 27. à peine... eut-elle. For the inversion see note on p. 10, 1. 15.

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1. 14. tenait de V enchantement, 'had something enchanting about it.'

1. 26. vis-à-vis mademoiselle. Vis-à-vis de is a px'cposition, an abbreviation for visage à visage. De is sometimes omitted in conversation, as hère ; but tliis should not be imltated.

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