de la nuit, all that night

Page 51.—s. elle s’en fut a... she went away to... Etre is often used in past tenses to replace aller. S’en fut, ‘ went away’

being unambiguous, is commoner in written French today tha fut, ‘ went.’ ; 25. parlant, if she had spoken.

Page 52. — 6. de belles et bonnes guinées, plenty of good, solid guineas. As guineas (= twenty-one shillings) were not coined after 1813, being replaced by sovereigns (= twenty shillings) in 1817, Mérimée is a little inexact.