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-Devait avoir tort : Could not fail being in the wrong. Tort, wrong ; from Lat. tortus, twisted, participle of torqnere, to twist ; then Low Lat. tortîim^ a tvv^ist, damage, injustice. C/. wrong^ injury ; from wrin§:.

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Je vous le jure : I promise you faithfally. Notice. — Jurer is usecl in French for io affiriii strongly. Cela est arrivé, je vous jure, tout comme je vous le dis : It happened, I can assure you, just as I tell you.

Marche : Goes on, progresses (does any work)» Marcher ; To walk ; lit. to stamp about with one's feet, to tread, to beat down, from Lat. marcare^ derived from. marais, a hammer. A Latin -French glossary of the thirteenth century has * * caîcare=7narcher . " 17 26 — Dans quel but : For what purpose (why should I) ?

17 26— Depuis longtemps je suis revenu des con-

spirations : I have long been disgusted with conspiracies (turned my back on conspiracies). iS 10 — A n'en pouvoir douter : Most undoubtedly, for certain. Notice. — A vrai dire, to tell the truth ; à en croire ses amis, if we are to believe his friends (according to his friends) ; à y bien regarder, looking well into it ; à tout prendre, altogether ; à partir de ce jour, from this day , forth.

18 II — Ecarter : To reject, to remove from. Etym.

escarter, compound of ex and carte, originally a term of card-playing, means properly to put some cards aside, reject them ; thence by extension to reject generally, écarter. Cf. Eng. discard. Justice discards friendship : la justice écarte l'amitié.

18 i5 — A cela près : Nevertheless (for ail that).

18 19 — Vues dont on ne peut méconnaître la haute portée : Designs the loftiness of which cannot bs denied.

18 31 — Poignard, pronounce po-gnar ; poignée (po-gnée)

handful ; poignet (po-gnè) wrist ; empoigner (empo-gné) to grasp, seize; ail derived from poing Lat. pugnus. Notice. — When a word ends in rd or r/, the r is joined to the vowel at the beginning of the word following in préférence to the d or t. Un poignard acéré, pron. un po-gnar acéré. Verbs in the third per. sing. of the près. ind. followed by the pronoun are exceptions to this rule. Ex. : Il cour(t) encore ; il ser(t) à manger, but, Oh court-îl? à quoi sert-il?

19 10 — Soient en jeu : Be at stake.

^9 17 — Quand il serait vrai: If even it were true, supposing. . .

19 29 - Si cela m'arrivait jamais : If I ever did.

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Page i() line 12.-^0. s'en douterait pas : Would not bave the slightest idea of it. Notice. — Je doute de son aôection, I doubt his affection ; Je me doutais de sa malice, I suspected his malice ; Je me doutais qu'il viendrait, I had an idea that he would come ; On ne s'en douterait pas, one would never think so.

19 34 — Voici du monde : There is somebody coming.

Notice. — Aller dans le monde, to go into Society ; Avoir du monde, to have company. (^c-i? Hachette's *' Formes Idiomatiques Comparées," ch. xix., phrase 924.)