de part en part, through and through

lOO NOTES.

5. Bi matin, phrase : so early — that he cotild {only) hardly see hniu (0, etc. eu, in thc niaiincr of : like.

6. pourrait s'être laissé prendre, rcflox. idiom : se laisser prendre, might hâve let himstlf l>e caui;ht. Sce 37, 3.

7. la nuit, adverbial =/>^«a'a«/ la nuit, s'entre-tourmenter. The pretix entre is thus used, with sume reflexives, to cmjihasizc the idea of mutual action.

Page 43. — i. prit l'essor, soared away. à tire d'aile, with a jerk of the wing : n'ith a sitdden szooop.

2. j'étais pris, / shotild certainly hâve been caught . . . but for, etc. ; fêtais {or f aurais été, to mark the certainty of the fact.

3. l'on, once the article, now only euphonie, le bonbon is collective for sweetmeats in gênerai.

4. il faudrait qu'il jouât, etc., he -cvould hâve to be very lucky.

5. dedans, as 15, 6. à Bologne, fassing through Bologna (in Italy, referring to a fashionable hreed of lap-dogs at that day).

6. Sur ce nom, at this name — itself of good omen. The Latin proverb says : Bonum nomen, bonum omen.

Page 44. — i. "Voilà qui est beau, That' s a prctty business! à regarder {in) looking at : use of à, as heretofore, 2, 2, etc.

2. Cà, que, etc., Came! give me, etc.; on, as frequently, with référence to persons présent. There is a fme touch of nature in this passage, souliers hauts, high-heeled shoes.

3. s'entre-cognaient. See 42, 7. ne . . . guère, hardly . . . ai ail. "Voilà . . . qui, as 40, i .

4. aux grands miroirs defines galeries, a fréquent use ol à — 7uith, or of, in description.

5. qu'il n'eût pas, that he tnight not hâve, etc. s'en retourner, see 36, 6. For ne pouvait presque — almost not — hardly, sjc 30, 5.

6. il y a un mois, idiom : a month ago. je fus me promener {fus for allai), I tuent sailing; se promener may mean any kind of excursion (see p. 13, 1. I ).

Page 45. — i. que ... ne me rapporte, subj. idiom = unless, etc.

2. quand . . . parleriez, thouçh you should ; the usual sense of quand, conditional. Note the form, changer de.