des mises de lafahnque, the output of the factory

1. 13. dans les momeiits où les expéditions donnaient, at times when there was a pressure of consignments.

1. 39. y aurait-il quelque chose qui clocherait chez elle? is anything wrong there ? Clocher, lit. to limp, cp. Ce raisonnement cloche, this argument does not hold good. Note the double use of the conditional; it hère imparts an élément of délicate discrétion to the question, which the simple présent would lack.

Page 34. 1. 1. faut pas, short for il ne faut pas, used only in familiar speech.

1. 2. quasi, * so to speak,' a Latinism which has penetrated even into the speech of the lower classes.

1. 5. On ne sortit pas . . . on devrait: peculiar use of the conditional. Translate : ' even if one were not gmteful . . . one ought to be so . . .'