lui fit donner, compare note to p

5. pour boire is a phrase witli the real significance of which ail those who intend travelling in France ouglit to niake themselves faniiliar, if tliey waiit to get on well with cabnien, porters, and such like ; the English cabby levies this kiml of toU nnder the name of ti/J. Compare the Germaii trinkgeld.

7. un jour que, one, day wTicn ; que referring to an antécédent denoting time answers to the Englibh then or irlicn ; thus 1. 10.

il sut (prêt, of savoir) is a striking instance of how the use of one tense in préférence to another may affect the very meaning of a verb ; hère— il sut, lie learnt, he choMced to hcar, whilst il savait could hardly mean anything else but — he knew (already), or he was aware.

8. devait ; ' devoir ' followed by an infinitive may express not

only what 7iii(st be doue, but also what is exjJcctcd.

9. du monde ; Mhy du and not ' dans le,' as in in English ? 1 1 . n'avoir qu'à, to Tieed only.