prier, hcro, to invite

il y avait plus de . . . que, see note to p. 9, 1. 25, and translate accordingly.

7. n'était ; in Fronch a verb following after a comparative (as

liere aftcr plus de) takes ne before it ; tins is easily accounted for by inverting the sentence — ' il est plus âgé que vous ne pensez," being really — you do not think him so old as lie (actually) is. So hère — she had 7iot left lier turret for more tliaii iil'ty years.

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12. 7. et que . . . ; ' qne ' stands hère for tlie sake of brevity mstead of parce que, 1. 6 ; cp. note to p. 3, 1. 3,

8. fit donner, see note to p. 8, 1. 3-4, and translate accordingly ;

donner, liere, to lay.

10-11. l'on n'en avait fait que sept ; tins sentence calls for

several remarks : —

(1) l'on is often used instead of on with exactly tlie same

meaning, generally for tlie sake of casing the pronunciation ;

for instance, after si, et, also after que, wlien on is foUowed

by a Word beginning with hard c or q ; (2) ne . . . que

= only ; (3) en is tlie complément of sept, literally — seven

of (hem.

11. vieille is liere nsed as a noun — old u-oman; for old man we

sliould say — vieillard.