hien, ‘ exactly

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1. Une lettre pour monsieur. ‘A letter for you, sir.” French servants address their masters in the third person. ‘ Did you ring, ma’am?” is therefore Madame a sonnée ‘At what time do you want the carriage, sir?’ A quelle heure monsieur veut-il qu’on attelle 9

9. avant que vous n’alliez. Avant que always takes the Bubjunctive, and sometimes takes ne, as here, where there is no négative in English.

La Cigale chez les Fourmis.

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