quelle qu'en fût la nuance, whatever ils color was

Page 57« — i. n'eût essayé, had tried; verbs of doubt used negatively require ne in the subjunctive clause.

Page 68* — i. san^i y tâcher, without trying to do it. The pronoun y is used to take the place of the préposition à (sometimes en and dans) and an object pronoun when the pronoun refers to a. thing (rarely iivhen it refers to a person) ; it stands for à cela, dans cela, en ce lieu; with the verb tâcher, y takes the place of the préposition de and an object pronoun.