s'ouvrit, see note to p

24. en moins de rien, the almost literal English rendering is

■ — in Icss than no tinic.

25. il y avait. . . que, imperf. indic. of the impersonalidiomatic

phrase — il y a . . . que (depuis que), literally^ — there is {are) . . . since ; as a rule rendered in English —

' Il y a trois jours qu'il n'a mangé ' — He has not caten a nything for three days.

27. en attendant ; notice that attendre requires no préposition before its object, and that en need not be translated hère.

10. 1. il répondit; 'il,' to agrée with the grammatical gender of the Word (chaperon), instead of agreeing with the scx of the perso7i denoted by that word ; thus ' sa Majesté, le roi de Suède. '

10. se déshabille, et va se mettre ; for the sake of greater vividness the incidents of a story are often related in the présent tense [so in Latin, but seldom in English].