n'osaient presque, almost dared not : hardly dared

6. du côté que, in the direction ivhere ; lit. that; a somewhat loose use of que = oit.

Page 31. — I. c'est ici, this is : like c'est là (= ceci, cela est), as 18, 10.

2. cela étant, that being so. que ce soit, etc., simply : we prefer that your husbaiid shall (subj.), etc. We hâve no équivalent for Monsieur, J\/adaine, etc., in this use.

3. peut-être que (= maybe that) shows the origin : il peut être que ; now peut-être alone (= maybe) is more fréquent. For l'en prier, see 22, 2.

4. cacher à, hide from ; as with many such verbs, à reprcsenting a Latin dative. crut qu'elle pourrait might be infin., as 30, 4.

5. les fit cacher = les fit se cacher : made them hide (themselves) ; les fit cacher = properly, had them hidden. entendirent heurter; supply ionie one = heard a knocking.

6. en sembla . . . meilleur, only the belUr, where the (= en./?; 'h ./) is a true démonstrative, not merely the article.

7. habiller, as \ve also say, " dress," for cooking. It is plain that the ogre means live méat. The veal was fresh.

Page 32. — i. à quoi il tient, etc., on what it dépends that, etc. : whal keeps vie from ealing you, too. See 16, 5.

2. bien t'en prend d'être; idiom, impersonal: it is well for you that you are — that is to say, tough ! The emphatic position of bien, with omission of il, is usual in this phrase.

3. ces jours-ci, shortly. de mes amis, friends of mine ; lit. partitive : among my friends.

4. avaient affaire (from à faire), had to do with. ce seraient là, those ivould be. See 18, 10; also 4, 7.

5. approchant de; usually, s' approchant de. Also transitive, as 24, 3. Ail this is wonderfully " realistic."

6. à l'heure qu'il est, at the hour it is : at this time ofnight. en . . . plus, ail the more tender ; as 31, 6.

7. bien à souper, plenty of supper. va les mener coucher, go and put them to bed ; coucher being taken as transitive, as 26, 7. Or, coucher may be taken = se coucher, as 31, 5, and p. 33, 1. 9, etc.