qu'elle devait l'être, as it must hâve been

Page 7. — I. Quoi qu'il en soit, hotvever that may be.

2. Note this use of venir à, happen to ; compare with venir de, as in page 6, Une 32.

3. oïl il a été, ivhere he went. The past definite and the past indefinite of être are f requently used in familiar style for corresponding forms of aller. Cf. our colloquial English, " I was to town yesterday," " I hâve been to see him," etc.

4. Je ne sais trop pour quel usage, I am not quite sure for luhat purpose.

5. de lui faire comprendre, etc., to make herunderstand. \Vhen ■ faire governs a dépendent infinitive which has an object of its own,

the nominal object of faire (the logical subject of the infinitive) must take the indirect object form, {lui).

Page 8. — I. et nous ne nous eûmes pas plutôt fait . . . que,

and we had no sooner made . . . than.

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