s'offrir à, used in the same sensé as ' offrir de

6. vouloir bien, ' to be kind enough ; ' hère — to condescend to.

en les coiflFant, elles lui disaient ; the construction is not strictly grammatical, as the subject of the principal clause (elles) ought to be also the subject of the participial clause ; as long as the meaning is clear, however, the rule, tbough good in itself, is by no means uniformly observed.