les unes dans les autres, see note to p

20. bête ni homme, or, ni bête ni homme ; after ni the article is often left ont.

aurait pu passer ; for the conjug. of ' pouvoir ' in compound tenses, see Preliminary notes, II. a., p. vi.

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15. 21. ne plus que, wonl for wonl — no lonçicr than ; tlie sentence

miglit l>e rcndcred witli tho auxiliary verb cuuld, as in p. 3, 1. 13.

22. encore n'était-ce ; ' encorp, ' hcrc — evcn thcse, is onc of those

adverbial conjunctions af'tcr wliicli the verb is generally placed before the subjcct ; i'reely — and evcn thcse cuuld only be seen in the far distance.

23. n'eût fait ; aftcr verbs whicb express a douU the verb in the

dépendent clause is put in the subjonctive, and is generally preceded by ne.

un tour de son métier, word for word — a trick of her handicraft.