séduit.^" Encha,nted

1. 30. " To think of," isin French either penser à or songer à. Pensez-y.— '* Think of it," but qu' en pensez voujs ? — "What do you think of it ?" In this line we hâve too a good example of the usage of the Imperfect and Preterite Definite. Etais dénotes the state in which the speaker felt hiniself to be, évriint dénotes one particular individual act. See Gram. , §§ 552 and 554. (In De Fivas, unfortunateiy the reniarkson thèse tenses are very meagre and sometimes quite misleading, as for example the last sentence of § 554 and the whole of § 555.)

1. 32. je n^ étais plus moi. — " I was no longer myself." The pronouns je, tu, il, ils, me, te, se, le, la, les and leur, cannot stand in emphatic positions ; they must always be used in close connection with verbs, and for this reason are sometimes called " Conjunctive pronouns." When, as in this line, a pronoun is to stand in some emphatic position, one of the forms moi, toi, soi, etc., called "disjunctive pronouns," must bc used.

Page 18, line 5. enlève les yeux. — "Captivâtes the eye."

1. 7. on eût dit. — "One would hâve said." aurait is the commoner for m.