C'est que, thefact is
Page 88« — i. Bernardines, nuns of the order of St. Benoît; reformed by St. Bernard. The first convent was founded in Spain.
2. Rennes, the capital of the department of IlU-et-Vilaine ; it was the capital of ancient Brittany.
3. mendigote, beggar-woman; from the Spanish: mendigo^ "beggar."
Page 84. — i. fut, cf. page 13, note 3.
2. leur importe ... à eux-mêmes, it is of importance , , , ta tkemselves,
Pagi) 85* — I. Jacques, nickname of the French peasants as a class.
Page 86* — i. molle riyière, sleepy stream.
Page 87« — i. que tous ne voyiez, the subjunctive is used where the principal clause contains gênerai interrogation implying négative answer.
2. quand vous verriez, though y ou should see; quand and the conditional are more emphatic than the regular " if " clause.
3. Une vision vaine, author's foot-note: ^^ Imitation de /. C, I, 21." See page 38.
Page 88« — i. déplaît aux saints, author's foot-note: ^^Imitation de/. C, iii, 58.'*
2. Angélus, " (a) In the Roman Catholic Church a dévotion in memory of the annunciation to the Virgin Mary, by the angel Gabriel, of the incarnation of the Son of God. (b) The bell toUed in
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the moming, at noon» and in the evening, to indicate to the faithf ul the time when the Angélus is to be recited." — Cent. DicU
3. eussent-ils trouyé meilleur, />i^j/z(/<'Wd^^izz'<r/r^^rr^</; rhetorical inversion after peut-être; the resuit clause is in the second past conditional, which corresponds to the pluperfect of the subjunctive.
