qui . . . tâtait, touching. See

3. j'allais faire, etc., ironical phrase : / was about to make a fine job of it.

4. travaillons hardiment, plural, as 33, 7 : let's go boldly to work. The idiom, 1. 13, coupa la gorge à, etc., is the same as above, 1. 4.

5. Va- t'en là haut, ^t) up stairs and dress, etc., the sensé as p. 31, 1. 29. It is curiûus that the same double entendre is possible in English also.

6. ne se doutant point de, etc., not suspecting the manner {in whicii) he ineant, etc. Note the reflex. sensé, quite différent from the simple douter, as t'requently; also the seemingly opposite sensés of entendre, to hear, iinderstand ; but hère, to intend, niean {i.e. give to understand).

7. que trouvent: note position of subject in relat. clause. The satire hère is charming.

Page 35. — i. ne fût ... à faire, might te too long iti doing, etc., ne, as 33, 3.

2. me le payeront, shall pay me for it (lit. it to me). Note the idioms — the objects reversed. See 24, 4.

3. l'ayant fait revenir, phrase : having hrought her to (herself). le nez is hère familiar iox face.

4. se mit en campagne, phrase : took the field : started. de tous côtés, phrase : in ail directions, ne . . . plus qu'à is not comparative (more than), but both plus and que limit ne : was no longer but, i.e. was nozv only.