Munda. Cf. above, page 3, line

NOTES

Page 10. — 1. je lui fis comprendre. When faire is combined with an infinitive, it usually has an indirect personal object (lui), if the infinitive has a direct object (qu’il . . . ).

4. meilleur que je ne . . . For ne see note to page 4, line 22.

9. Après avoir mangé. Après regularly is followed by the perfect infinitive. En is followed by the present participle (gerund); all other prepositions govern the infinitive.

20. s’étant fait donner la mandoline, after having the mandolin handed to him.

24. Si je ne me trompe. Pas is frequently omitted in the ifclauses of conditional sentences and regularly in si ce n’est, * except.’

27. langue basque. Basque is a peculiar and difficult language, probably derived from that of the ancient Iberian inhabitants of Spain. It is now spoken by some 600,000 people in Spain, and by not over 100,000 in Southwestern France.

Page 11. — 1. le Satan de Milton. Mérimée is probably

thinking of Paradise Lost , I, 591 ff.; cf. also Paradise Lost, I, 54-8 and IV, 23-6.