Ou plutôt Ui-bas, or rather not far away. Note the

différence between là ^ * there/ and là-bas, * over yonder.' SQ. une lettre quelconque, any Utter whcUecer. Note that

quelconque always follows its noon. 67. — 2. d'un train à l'autre, between one train and the next,

17. l'œuvre combinée, the work which he had planned. 24. n ne fallait I>a8, itdidnot require.

34. Alors elle lui demanda, etc., then she aeked kimy etc. Note the touching simplicity of character as developed bj Lucie in her artless conversation with Jean. And ^ note that the art consista in developing the character without directly describing it The commentator may well forbear I 68« — là. Suia-je sotte, am Inotfoolidi. Note that in such expressions the French usually omit the négative, required in English.

18. Dans tous les cas, at ail eoents^ al any raie. 22. Parfaitement, exactly so.

59.— 9. s*inquiéta ensuite de savoir, vxts anxioua then to know,

13. à n'importe qui, to any one whatever. Lit., ' to no matter vho.' ^