qu^on vous devait, * due to you

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L 787. Que n^ai-je,,, f * why hâve I not... ? * Pas is always omitted in this phrase, where que... ne means * why not.' See Eve, § 290.

1. 789. solitaire et pauvre. Madame de Bretteville was well off, but lived stingily, as her late husband had done. It is more poetical, however, to make her poor.

L 790. un toit, 'ashelter.*