que si, tliat if, etc., expands menaces
3. et qu'il m'excusât. See 45, 3. In such cases a double sensé of the verb is implied, as: and begged hiin to excuse me.
4. en brave homme, see 42, 5. For ne servit de rien, see 9, 4.
5. de ses nouvelles, phrase : news o/kim. entendait dire cela, heard that said, as 37, 3. dont . . . approcher. See 32, 5.
6. battrez, xvhile you are Jighting. French requires the future.
Page 48. — i. qu'il le vit, not long, when; or, until he saw him coining, etc. See 13, 7.
2. à belles dents, phrase, expressing appetite or eagerness. croque is subj. : that I may ; ox, for ?ne to eat.