tant . . . d'impatience ; the complément of tant, as

of some other adverbs of quantity or degree, as combien,

que, etc., is, as a rule, placed after the verb in French ;

thus— Combien j'ai douce souvenance I What aplea-

sant recollection I hâve !

Que ces enfants sont jolis I How pretty thèse child-

ren are !

7-8. les voilà ; ' les ' is the object of the verb voir contained in voilà, which may refer to timc, as hère, as well as to 2}l(i'Cc ; the nieaning is — now they iegan to . . . ; or ' behold them at once running ..."

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3. 13. OÙ l'on se voyait; iti English we sliould rather express the

iiitended incaniiig by the anxiliary verb can : — rvherc one could sec oncs self ; see also note to p. 12, 1. 10-11 (1).

14. les unes ... ; the indefiiiite article is hère used substautivcly

— soinc.

16. eût jamais vues ; tlie verl:) is in the subjunctive after

adjectives in the superlative degree.