fit éclater, exhilnted; so, often by one transitive verb

4. des plus à la mode, of the most fashionable. For mesdemoiselles, see 12, 5.

5. s'allait mettre ... et s'asseoir; the former as 1, 10, etc., used to go and, etc.

Page 18. — I. ce qui faisait, etc., which caused her to be called, etc. Cucendron and Cendrillon are both from cendre, ashes ; the former with a depreciative prefix.

2. ne laissait pas d'être, idiom : did not cease to be; \\&x&,ii'asnevertheless. quoique vêtues is elliptical.

3. en pria, invited ; en = d'y venir. Note omission of article in faire grande figure, z.'i frequently in phrases; also below, 1. 10, in nouvelle peine, which stands, elliptically, in apposition \\'ith the foregoing.

4. Les voilà, idiom, as 5, 9; emphatic for they ivere, etc. qui le'ix siéraient, which should hecome them.

5. On, hère, as often, famiharly referring to definite persons.

6. manteau, " niy gold brocaded train and my diamond stomacher." Note the use of à. qui, etc., which is none of the poorest, is, of course, ironical.

7. la bonne coiffeuse (fem. of coiffeur); la is intensive = the wellknovvn; z^y, the best. cornettes à deux rangs, " caps with double rows of quilHng." mouches, patches for the face, " beauty spots " — a strange fashion of earlier days.

8. voulurent bien, gladly accepted. avait le goût bon is the usual idiomatic form, as 4, 2, etc.

9. En les coiffant, IV/iile she 7vas, etc., should propcrly rcfer to tlic subject; yct llic s^iisc is clcar.

10. ce n'est pas là - fcla 71' est pas : that is iiol -whal suiis me, " not the thing for me."

Page 19. — I. tant, the usual emphatic position : so tramported ivere they^ as 5, S, etc.

2. à force de, jihrase, hy dint of, in trying to. Note plus de before numéral.

3. le plus longtemps que, as long as. The following, Lorsquelîe, et-:., is a fme touch of nature.