LE REMPLAÇANT

+ We have been living in the same street for more than three

years.

As it is raining and very windy, I shall not go out to-day.

. Since they married, everything has been going wrong.

As soon as I saw him, I took a dislike to him.

The poor fellow had been turned out of his place.

It seems to me that I should not have allowed myself to be deceived so easily.

+ À pair of old shoes had been stolen from a shop-window. . For a year he had acted as secretary to a politician. . Ît was amusing to see in what a solemn fashion they carried

their heads.

. The oldest of them was about thirty.

+ Have you never heard his name pronounced in your presence ? + He had been in tuin a soldier, a barrister, and a diplomatist.

+ T'hardly suspected that they had done me so much honour.

+ Did you not take the cab by the hour ?

+ When he had five sous, he got his hair curled.

. The young vagabond energetically denied having had any share

in this expedition.

On the whole, no one knew what part they had played in the affair.

I had given myself out for a sailor weary of the sea. What an amusing man your cousin is !

+ His laughter was so infectious that all burst out laughing

in their turn.

The sound of that voice made my heart leap. À prey to various thoughts, he went away with great strides. How many times these words came back to my mind ! Shrewd indeed would be the spy who recognised him ! Five francs a day ! I had never earned so much. Let them forget me, that s all I want.

. I spent the whole day in the full glare of the sun digging the

ground.

+ Though his legs were heavy and his hands burning, he was

satisfied with himself.