lui, emphatic; disjunctive pron
8. qu'on les envoyât quérir, did not wait to he sent for. Note subj. idiom. tant . . . d'impatience, so impatient were they.
9. lies voilà, etc. The elliplical expression adds liveliness : they at once began to, etc.; as also the emphatic toutes, for: each more beautiful than the others.
10. OÙ, for the relative : in ivhich — connects with et dont : and zuhose, etc. Note omission of pas after cessaient, as with pouvoir, savoir, etc.
Page 6. — I. pensa se rompre, thoiight she would break her neck — or, came near breaking her neck.
2. qu'il pourrait lui arriver, that there might some evil befall her, for, etc., impersonal, as 5, 5.
3. se miraient, as in a mirror. In the darkness she had not yet seen the bodies themselves. This stroke adds to the horror of the scène.
4. n'en pouvait venir à bout, idiom: come to an end of — could not succeed {in doing so"). Note position of tant, as 5, 8.
5. eut beau la laver, idiom, like our " might well wash," that is, uâelessly : iti vain did she zvash it.
Page 7. — I. il y demeura, impersonal form: there remained on it. fée, hère as adj. : enchanted, bewitchcd.
2. dès le soir même, dh emphasizes expressions of time : that very evening. dans le chemin, on the road. Sa femme fit, etc. — how truc to nature !
3. D'où vient, whence comes : why is it ? Note omission of il.
4. Il faut, etc., / must hâve Icft it up stairs. Impersonal and reflexive forms are far more fréquent in French than in English. Translate always idiomatically. So belovv, 1. 1 7, il fallut apporter, she had to, etc.
5. de n'avoir pas, etc., may dépend ov^ pardon, or on repentir, according to punctuation. The former sensé is hère preferred.
6. avait le cœur, etc., as 4, 2. Observe, also, il taut,yot( must, and / must. See 7, 4.
Page 8. — I. xxn demi-quart d'heure. \Ve say: only ten mintttes. Note, also, les yeux baignés, with her eyes bathed, etc.
2. Ma sœur, the possessive always in French; and below, la sœur, her sisler. Nute thc idionis; also, fre<iuent reflcxives, s'appelait, se hâter, as note 7, 4, etc.
3. poudroie — verdoie: "Thc sun, which makes a dust, and the grass, '.vhich looks green" — so usually given. The meaning probably is, the sun shining upon the motes (^pondre) in the air, which thcn show like dust. The i/ttst proper {poussière^ is mentioned later.
4. lïncore, etc., a moment more ; tout bas, very lo7v (voice). Note, again, the effective répétition, as 2, 6, bere causing suspense.
5. je m'en vais, i.e. venir: Vm coming : in usual sensé of aller, as auxiliary future.
Page 9. — I. de ce côté-ci, phrase: in this direction. Note, again, BOnt-ce, is it ; or are thev, as 4, 7.
