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cannot help trembling on hearing that horrible noise. 11. He Bâked me if I had corne willingly, and I an- Bwered no. 12. If you hâve not corne willingly, you may go away to-morrow. 13. Say good-bye to this gentleman* before going away. 14. We hâve supped very well in his palace, and we are much obliged to him for it. 15. Which of thèse gentlemen is the master? I want to thank him. 16. I thank you for * what you hâve given us, sir.
^We are four. 'Sup. 'See Exercise m, note 6. ^Xon- •ienr. ' Bo.
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Study reflexive verbs.
1. I have very little time, but I wîsh to inspect this beautiful castle in which we are.* 2. We have been walking in the garden, but now we will begîn to * visit the castle. 3. We have only three days to stay hère, and we wish to see ail (that which) there is in this palace. 4. Do you see that door? It is that of the library of the palace. 5. Open it; you will see many books there. 6. If you are bored you can corne [and] read in this library. 7. Seat yourself there and take one of thèse books. 8. I will take the one on which is written in gold letters: Beauty's Book. 9. Do you know what I found on opening the door of that room? 10. There are so many ' books that I shall not be bored if I stay hère six weeks. 11. As we have only two hours to stay hère we will not read; we will take a walk
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în the garden. 12. Why do you sîgh? Do you wîsh for anythîng? 13. Do you see her? Tell me what she îs doing now. 14. I cannot tell you that, but if you glance at the mirror, you will see her there. 15. She is very sad; she is sighing. I think she is bored because she has six days to stay hère.
^ Fînd ouiselves. ' 80 mettro î. * Tant da.
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1. Are you going to meet your sisters? Where are they coming from ^? 2. They are coming this evening at seven o'clock. 3. We shall sit down at table as soon as * they appear.' 4. Are you willing that I should take supper with you? 5. You must ask the mistress of the house, if you wîsh to take supper with us. 6. If you are hungry you hâve only to seat yourself at the table. 7. We shall eat ail we find' on the table. 8. The master of the house will not prevent us from taking supper hère; he is very kind. 9. That may be true, but he is so ugly and has so little wit that he bores me [very] much. 10. I do not think him very ugly and he is not a fool. 11. Go away if you do not like him; ail this house is his. 12. Do you know whose * this is? This is mine but that is his. 13. Let us take what is y ours and let us leave* this house; I tremble when I hear him coming.* 14. Why do you tremble? I hear no noise and I know that he will not corne. 15. Let us go away; we are bored. We do not wish to sup with thèse stupid [people]. 16.
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Why dîd you lie to me? You said you would take supper hère and then you went away.
* From where, d'oi. ' Dm que. ' See Exercise m, note 4. * To wfaom. * Go out of » wrtir d«. * Infinitive.
Pftge 33, lines 9 to 88.
1. It îs a pîty * that thèse men are so ugly. 2. They hâve good hearts,* but they are ugly and stupid. 3. Thèse beautiful girls do not want to be their wives; they wiU certainly refuse to many them. 4. This man is a leal monster; I am afraid of him. 5. You must not excite his anger; he has a bad heart. 6. Why do you sigh? Are you afraid of the monster? 7. Be reassured; he is very kind. You may sup with good appetite, for he will not corne. 8. I shall die of fear if he visits me every evening. 9. I know that he is kind,' but he is so ugly that I tremble on looking at him. 10. It seems to me that he has very good sensé; he entertained me very well during supper yesterday. 11. Seeing him alone in his home, I felt great compassion for him. 12. I asked him to visit me in my palace, but he refused to come. 13. It is a pity that he cannot come; he would hâve kept you from beiog bored. 14. I must discover some one to visit me hère; I am ail alone. 15. It is a pity that you hâve no f riends to * come every evening [and] sup with you. 16. My sister has come [to] spend two months with me, and she has just arrived. 17. She
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îs very ugly, but she îs so good and has so much sensé that she seems beautiful to me.
* Observe that this expresnon is always foUowed by the subjunctive. ' Singular. ' His kindness. ^ Pour.
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1. Why are you looking at your wateh? Do you want to go to bed? 2. No. I never go to bed before ten o'clock; but I was looking to see if it would soon be eight o'clock. 3. My old friend never fails to corne [and] see me at that hour, and I want to see him. 4. There is one thing which grieves me: it is that he can never stay more than one hour. 5. I always ask him if he camiot stay longer, but he has never failed to go away at nine o'clock. 6. He cannot stay; he must go, and you can see that he îs fiDed with grief when he leaves you. 7. He wiU always be your friend; you must try to content yourself with that. 8. We promised them that we would never leave them, but they did not believe us. 9. We would rather die than (to) ^ refuse her the pleasure which she asks. 10. I do not wish to cause their death. I hâve promised to retum in ten days. 11. If I had not desired to see my father I should hâve remained in the beautiful palace. 12. He must not die; I shall retum willingly when I hâve seen my father. 13. You must return in three days if you do not wish me to die' of grief.
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14. He wishes me to leave hîm but I cannot. 15. If you tell him that his f ather is dying he will retum.
'De.
' That I die; verbs of wishing are followed by the subjunctive.
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1. I shall be at my f ather 's to-morrow and shall remain there a week. 2. Shall you remember your promise to ^ retum in eight days? 3. When I awoke this moming I found myself in my f ather 's house. 4. Ring the bell at the side of my bed; I wish the maid servant to come. 5. I see the maid coming; wait for her and tell her that I want to see her. 6. When she saw me she gave a great cry. 7. Inform my father that I am hère and that I want to see him. 8. He will inform my sisters and their husbands of it. 9. I almost died of joy at seeing my dear daughter again. 10. She is dressed like a princess; she must be very happy. 11. I hâve told my sisters how happy I am, but they do not believe it. 12. They cannot stifle their jealousy when they see me dressed Uke a princess. 13. Her sisters will try to detain her more than a week, but she will retum to-morrow. 14. Let us tear our hair and prétend to be so afflicted at her departure thàt she will remain. 15. Will she break her word and remain? I do not think so. 16. She loves her father too much and wishes to see him. 17. If she had remembered her promise he would not hâve died ' of grief.
> Be. ^ Mourir takes être as auxiliary.
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1. I will put my ring on the table and go back to bed. 2. I will put it there in order that * I may wake up in the palace. 3. When I wake up in the moming I will dress myself splendidly in order to please him. 4. I had hardly gone to bed when I dropped to sleep. 5. Has the clock struck? What time * is it? 6. It strikes eight o'cloek in vain; he is not coming this moming. 7. I shall be in despair if he does not corne, for I want to see him. 8. I shall be afraid of having been the cause of his death. 9. Let us look for him everywhere; let us run through the whole palace. 10. Remember your dream, where you saw him lying dead in the garden. 11. When I saw him in my sleep he was in the garden near the canal. 12. We hâve found him lying unconscious in the garden and we cannot lift him, he is so big. 13. His heart beats still; throw some water on his face. 14. I haven't any, but I will get some. 15. I see with joy that he is not dead, and that you hâve ^ound him. 16. I feared that you had forgotten' your promise, but sînce you hâve retumed I will pardon you. 17. Run [and] get some water; I want some for this poor man who is lying unconscious by the canal. 18. He had resolved, if he did not find his father, to let himself die of grief.
* Poïur que followed by subjunctive. ' What hour. • Sub» junctive after verb of fearing.
