venait de, see note to p

lui tomba de la main, see note to p. 3, 1. 24.

11-12. n'en pouvait venir à bout ; 'en' is tlie indirect object of venir à bout (tliat is, word for word — ' to corne to the end of), literally of it.

tant elle était ... ; the English construction is — she was so . . .

14. le sang ne s"en allait point ; hère, as in the case of 'on se

voyait,' p. 3, 1. 13, the full nieaning is best rendered by an auxiliary verb — 2vould not corne off.

15. eut beau la laver; the idiomatic phrase avoir beau dénotes

the uselessness of the action expressed by the following verb ; thus — avoir beau parler, to speak in vain ; or, vous avez beau parler, it is ail very fine for y oit to talk.