banc des accusés, ' dock

,, 9. nouveau-né : tiouveau remains invariable in this compound,

even when né is used as a noun : des nouveau-nés. ,, 20. la pendule, 'time pièce'; le pendule, 'pendulum.' ,, 31. l'incendie : see note, p. 7 1. 26.

19. 2. aurait dit . . : notice this use of the conditional to show

that the person who repeats a statement is unable or unwilling to vouch for its accuracy, and cf. d'ap7-ès le journal, la paix aurait été déjà signée, ' according to the paper, peace bas already been signed. '

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19. 5. toute lasse: tout, used adverbially in the sensé of 'quite,'

agrées in gender and number with the noun or pronoun before a féminine adjective or participle beginning with a consonant or aspirated h. Contrast —

elle était tout étonnée.

elle était toute surprise.

„ 10. un sien cousin : possessive pronouns are still used as adjectives in a few expressions, chiefly in speaking of relatives and friends. Cf. —

un mien ami, "j

un ami à moi, j- ' a friend of mine. '

un de mes amis, J

,, II. chercher fortune : for the omission of the article cf. — chercher noise or querelle à, ' to pick a quarrel with.' chercher malheur, ' to court misfortune. '

,, 12. Odessa, on the Black Sea, between the mouths of the Dnieper and Dniester, with over 150,000 inhabitants, is one of the most important wheat ports in the East.

,, 14. témoin à décharge, ' witness for the defence. ' ,, i5. une mauvaise défaite, ' a paltry pretence." ,, 19. en Sibérie : Siberia, into which Russian criminals and political offenders are transported, occupies ail Xorth Asia from the Ural Mount.iins to the Pacific Océan, and from the Arctic Océan to Russian Central .Asia and China.

,, 29. tm grand soin à ne charger personne : see note, p. 9 1. 6.

20. I. avaient entendu dire que . ., 'had heard that . .' Cf.

entendre parler de, ' to hear of. '

,, 2. propos, ' words," ' remark,' 'resolution'; never 'proposai.'

, , 5. ne purent se tenir de, ' could not refrain from. ' Cf. Je ne ptis m' empêcher de rire, ' I could not help laughing.'

,, 10. les gros bonnets, ' the big-wigs." Notice — afoir la tête prés du bonnet, ' to be hasty. ' mettre son bonnet de travers, ' to be out of temper.' jeter son bonnet par-dessus les moulins, ' to throw off ail

sensé of propriety. ' opiner du bonnet, ' to nod assent.' prendre une chose sous son bonnet, ' to assume the responsi-

bility of a thing.' c'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet, ' it is six of one and

half-a-dozen of the other. ' ce sont deu.v tètes dans un bonnet, ' they are hand and

glove together."

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