il lui redemanda les clefs, see note to p

25. d'une main si tremblante ; ' de ' is often used in the .sensé

of ic-itli, to form adverbial phrases of manncr, viz. to express hoiv somethiug is done ; see Preliniiuary (i.) II. 2.

26-27. s'était passé, pluperf. indic. of se passer, to happen. N.B. — AU reflexive verbs are conjugated with être in their compouud tenses.

d'où vient, shortened form of ' d'où vient-il ? '

28. il faut ... ; the impersonal verb ' il faut ' may be rendered in many différent ways in English ; hère — it miist be; other renderings will be noticed farther on ; je l'aie laissée ; 'aie' is in the subjunctive on account of the preceding il faut que ; see note to p. 1, 1. 11.

30. me la donner ; when a verb has two objects, both of them Personal prononns, we place the one in the first or second person before that in the third person, as hère.

tantôt, hère hy and hy ; it also means /itsi norv.

après plusieurs reprises, derived from past part, (repris) of reprendre, to résume; word for word — aftcr scveral reneioals ; the nieaning is — after several useless excuses. Thus à plusieurs reprises, on several occasions, at différent intervais, repeatedly.

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