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a été, as heretofore frequently//^/, as if = aller

4. qui . . . souhaitait, ivisldng, etc., as heretofore; referring usually to the object of the verb. See 34, 2; also 68, 4.

5. me l'a révélé; le, the fiel, peut-être que, as 31, 3, etc.

6. votre père i tous, a father ta you ail ; à tous, emphaiic, lefers to vous, implied in voire. Compare like use of à, 14, 3.

Page 80. — I. le lui faire remplir, to make him fill it ; the person indirect, when direct obj. is expressed, as heretofore.

2. cora^ov&TO. ... shxichxesjioiv sincère. Note position, as 67, 2; so\\ii;i ta7it, que, etc., 19, i ; 21, 4, etc.

3. l'avait mérité, had deserved {ta be), as frequently. sans rime ni raison, phrase : without rhynie or reaso7t ; sans implying négative. See 51, 3.

Page 81. — I. ne vit plus que, see 69, i.

2. se fût trouvé . . . s'il eût pu, 7vould hâve been . . . if he could hâve* etc. Note tlie subjunctives, in tliis form of condition, as 73, 2.

3. qu'il ne devînt . . . qu'il n'était; ne in each case idiomatic, as 33, 3; 28, 2; hère, in last clause, as if tlie foregoing were ajjirmative.

4. mourait. Note sensé of impf. = al/nost dicd. See 39, 5, prendre patience, phrase : be patient.

5. par lambeaux, into rags. Note, also, contre terre, ou the ground.

6. ne . . . pas seulement, not even. Note ind. obj., à ceux, asked of, etc.

Page 82. — i. pensait à retourner, ivas thinJdng of retuming, as 64, 4; not tlie same as pensait retotirjier. See 30, 4. Note also prep. phrase, à propos, opportunely, " apropos."

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