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SCENE V

A little child màkesfriends with Charlotte, and thus reminds her of the familyjoys she is giving up by her <ut, She remembers Barbaroux, and déclares her love for him.

L 1830. le fils cCune pauvre ouvrière, His name was Louis Lunel. "When she left Caen, Charlotte gave him her sketch-book.

L 1831. Qui s'était pris pour moi d^ amitié singulière, *who had formed a strange attachment to me.*

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L 1836. Pour quoi faire avez-vous ce couteau ? *why hâve you got that knife?* Heie pour quoi faire = pour faire quoi, *in order td do what?'

L 1837. Faites-moi voir, 'letmeseel*

Stage directions,

les gr amer s, Hhe gravel' (of the walks).

L 1848. Descendrait, The f^«â?ïVw«fl/ hère is used for a supposition, and implies the understood protasis of a conditional sentence. The dew would descend if it were really such a moming.

X JS*A de mugissements, * of the lowings of cattle.'

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L 1808. Nom chéri, Barbaroux is meant.

1. 1861. naguère, referring to the speech in Act lll. Scène I.

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