se tenir attaché à, to cling to

23. s'ils n'eussent fait ; the use of the subjunctive after si is

limited to the 3d pers. of the j^luperfect.

de toute leur vie ; the use of de is very common in adverbial phrases of timc ; thus — de jour, by day ; de nuit, by night ; de longtemps, for a long time.

24. voilà de quoi; instead of the word - for - word — 'there is

Avherewith, ' we niight say — now yoit, are fit to.

30. une paire de . . . les plus jolies du monde, cp. note to p. 27, 1. 4 ; freely rundered — siich a swcct littlc pair of. . .