leur avoir ôté, as

5. l'avait pensé, had thought {it ivould), as 5, 4, etc. pouvait exécuter, might hâve cxecuted. Note the idioms.

6. allons voir, idiomatic plur. : let's go, meaning: l'il go, etc.

7. n'en faisons pas à deux fois, phrase: not twice; hence, at once: let's hâve donc with them at once — the plural, familiarly, for singular.

Page 34. — i. à tâtons, by touches ; that is, he groped his ivay.