en revenir, give up the chase and go hack

15. eût terrassé. The subjunctive (II, A, 4) is here used in a subject clause because the verb in the principal clause does not express certainty or probability.

24. bien. Omit in translation. It implies that “ I might have been, for Longa ...”

28. Tout le temps que tu as servi sans punition, c’est du temps

perdu. All the time you served without ever meriting punishment is so much time lost.

Page 34. — 8. cette diable de fille-là. Diable is here treated as feminine because of fille; similarly we find une drôle de chose, though the feminine forms diablesse and drôlesse are used when not followed by another phrase.