de m'en acquitter; i.e. du service : to repay you for it

Page 49. — I. Monsieur du Corbeau. More complimentary than .1/.

le C, the prep. de {du) in proper names being regarded as a mark of noble descent (originally of local significance) ; hère humorous.

2. qu'on ne lui vînt, idiomatic ne, as heretofore ; not transi. See 33, 3.

3. ne laissa pas, sce 36, 5. Note the combination, ne . . . plus rien.

4. Si fait, ;■(■.>-, indced (I will refuse), implies always the opposite of what is affirmée! or expected.

5. qu'on y entre, subj. idiom : prevent one from entering. de tour, in circtimference ; whence détour, around.

6. en. Note tlie scnscs : hcrc, luith il; bclow, 1. 28, sovie of it.

7. de nen pouvoir revenir, of not, etc.; or, thai I can not retum. en, as frcciucntly, refers to whule preceding clause (= from the search) ; not transi.

Page 50. — I. de gaieté de cœur, phrase = wantonly, uselessly. Note, above, de dessein, as 45, 2.

2. lui centième, plirase, himself the hundredth : wit/i ninely-nine oihers.