soyez tranquille, make your mind easy

5. qu’on lui avait témoignée, the construction with ov is often best rendered by the passive: which had been shown her.

6. de lui ravir son pupille a quatre pattes, fo carry off from her

her fourfooted ward.

Page 10.—1. Comment purger? how am J to rid; an infinitive without a preposition is used in exclamations and questions of appeal.

2. Il ne songea plus qu’a l’exécuter, he thought of nothing else

but how to put it into practice.

3. Krautman, the name is intended to indicate that the porter

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was a Swiss, a considerable portion of the latter being of Germanic origin ; pronounce az as ow in “ now.”

4. a nous deux maintenant, xow for us two! or, now we'll have it out!

5. appeler au secours; notice the use of @ contained in au; similarly the French say crier au feu, “to cry fire”; au voleur! “thieves!”