courut, hère transitive, in sensé of parcourut

4. en donnant, while she was asleep. This form refers regularly to the stdiject.

5. m'a fait résoudre, for m? résoudre, as 53, 2; dans le canal, as 46, 2.

Page 69. — i. ne vit plus . . . que, see 57, 2.

2. jusqu'à ce que, until, with subj. Compare de ce que, 65, 5, etc.

3. laisser toucher à, alloiu yourself to be touched by — à, etc., being really indirect object= allow it to touch you. See 10, 3.

Page 70. — I. qu'il renferme, idiomatic singular, English plural, as 9, 5, etc. Hère, again, the moral is overdone. We may contrast this harsh sentence with Cinderella's more humane conduct, under like conditions. See end of No. IV.

2. que vous ne restiez, that you will remain ; idiom, as 33, 3, etc.

3. que la conversion, etc., is the true subject : the conversion . . . is, etc. — a fréquent use of çue, which can hardly be imitated in English.

The fréquent obtrusion of the explicit and didactic moral, so often noticed, marks departure from the purer style of Perrault — as of Grimm, in German — and therewith the décadence of a true literary art. Even the older and more natural taies are disfigured, in some modem adaptations, by such moral reflections — as if a sermon were always needed ! There is no lack of moral in fiction or in art; but the best is that which teaches itself, silently and unconsciously.

(Prince Darling.)

Page 71. — I. bon. The unusual position is emphatic. Note sensés ol honnête, before and after the noun.

2. faire du mal à, phrase : do hart?i to. à la chasse, hutiting.

3. je me suis sauvée, / took refuge. Note le dit (that you are), as heretofore.

Page 72. — i. De bon cœur, phrase : 7vith ail my heart.

2. Que lui servirait-il, ivhat good would it do him? Note below, 1. 14, the ^vM]. puisse after négative.

3. à devenir, hère =pour d. Note honnête homme, without art., as p. 71, 1. I, etc.

Page 73. — i. que vous ferez. Note the future: but below,!. 2, the présent continuez, as usual, after si.

2. comme si c'eût, etc., as if it had been. Note, again, this form of subj., with si.

3. poVLT donner, hère = en donnant, â}' giving. The earher uses oî pour and à with inlîn. were more varied than now. See 72, 3.

4. à quoi me sert. Compare, above, 72, 2, and note omission of il.

Page 74. — i. pussent. Note the subj. following a condition, though the condition itself (with si) is always indicative, except as above, 73, 2.

2. rien de si vilain que d'être, nothing so bad as to be. Note idioms.

3. habitude . . . défauts. The meaning is, thèse faults had become habits; that is, confirmed by indulgence.