il était tombé. See note to p

32. comme un malheureux. Render by * like one possessed.* Ci the opposite comme un bienheureux, p. 22, 1. 28.

20. vont avoir le nez long. Nez is used in many phrases where English uses ' face.' Cf. rire au nez, nez à nez, mettre le nez à la fenêtre. The English idiom hère ia ' will pull a long face.' For the predicative use of long, set* note to p. 16, 1. 17.

22. le» pieds. The teohnical word for a *root' or * stock' of potatoes,

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13. autant les enfants . . . autant les fainéants. Reverse the order of the clauses, rendering * it is just as much a duty to drive out the idlers, as it is,' etc.

21. en train de. Ilender this idiom by 'in the act of,' or 'busy.'

22. ferme et longtemps. Two adverbs qualifying the eame verb, two adjectives qualifying the same noun (when not separated by it) must be connected by et ; e.g. ses dernières et paternelles recommandations, where * and ' would be omitted in English, as it may be in translatin g the text.

23. garçon de labour. Translate ' ploughman/ Cf. garçon de ferme.

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2. bon voyage. Continental languages are much richer in polite phrases than English. If one leaves a Frenchman to go a journey, he will say Bon voyage ; if one leaves him to go to some amusement, he will say Au plaisir. When a Frenchman enters a railway carriage, he say s Bonjour, messieurs. Both on entering and leaving a shop he says Bonjour, madame.

10. qu'il n'était avant. Ne is used in the second clause when the first clause of a comparative sentence is positive ; when the first is négative, the second does not take ne. The explanation is, e.g., 'Jean Leroux had not so much considération before, as he had after, his success.'

15. ces grands jours de chaleur. Lit. ■ thèse great hot days.'

Eender by ' thèse days of great heat.* The words jour de chaleur hâve become almost an inséparable compound. Hence grands jours de chaleur is loosely put for jours de grande chaleur.

17. de plus en plus. Cf. de mieux en mieux, lit. * Irom better to better,' i.e. * better and better ' ; de pis en pis, ' worse and worse.' One can also say de mal en pis, which is simply the same as the English ' from bad to worse.'

22. rêver à. Distinguish rêver à, * to think about a thing with one's whole mind,' from rêver de, ' to dream of.'

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