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Page 5 Une 2— Foule: Crowd, verbal substantive. Etym. fouler, Lovv Lat. fullare, to tread, to trample upon. Derivatives : Refouler, to drive back ; foulure, sprain. Y oxAow, fulonem ; Y.r\g. ftdkr, 5 3— Ce serait une belle place que la mienne. Que is used here as a corrélative of ce^ for the sake of emphasis : T/iat place of mine would be a fine one. Notice.— C'est une belle vertu que l'amour de la patrie. C'est une grande imprudence que de se fier aux promesses d'un ennemi. (Que, Lat. qtiod^ may be used here to introduce thesubject.)

j 7— Gazette : Etym. Ital. gazetta, a small coin, which was the cost of the nevvspaper sold in Yenice ; the paper soon took the name of the coin.

5 II— Norvège : Notice that g soft rejects the grave

accent. Hence, though we wrife bègue, collègue, je lègue, with the grave, ^ being hard in thèse words, g being soft in the foUowing words, we write them with the acute : liège, collège, piège, siège, manège, cortège, privilège, (Sec.

6 I— Sceau : Seal. Etym. Lat. sigillum, diminutive of

si'rnum, signe. In Oid French neh or scax or secl. The c in the modem words sceau ox sceller^

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is a mistake in the spellinç; introduced in the sixteenth century. Notice. — The homonyms seau {siûellus, a masc. form of sUella), a pail ; saut [saltus)^ a leap. - Page 6 Une 14 — Il faut bien qu'on ... : S orne should be returned to him now . . .

6 19 — Visible: Disengaged. Notice. — He is always engaged until twelve o'clock; il n'est jamais visible avant midi.

6 23 — Nous avons beau nous mettre sur les rangs : It is no use asking for any thing. Cf. Engl. // is ail Tjery fine^ avoir beau ; and, To stand for, se mettre sur les rangs.

6 24 — Morbleu ! is an interjection which bas no équivalent in English, and should not be translated. Morbleu and parbleu are frequently heard in good Society, thèse v^^ords having by a euphemism of pronunciation entirely lost their former signification. Morbleu=Mort Dieu.

6 31 — Douairière: Dowager. Some persons still pro-

nounce dou-a-rière ; the correct modem pronunciation is, however, dou-ê-rière. Etym. douaire, L. Latin, dotarium. W e find in the fourteenth century, douagiere.

7 2 — En vouloir : And she has still greater reason than I

have to owe them agrudge. Notice. — ^Je vous en veux, I am angry with y ou ; Ne m'en veuillez pas, Forgive me.