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48 1 8. Nulle part: nowhere. — 19. j'ai: see 4614, note. — 25. Du tout: = pas du tout. — 26. qu'il ne faut jamais: that one must never.

49 2. contrarions : imperative, as is shown by the absence of the subject.— 13. qui lui a porté sur le cerveau: tohick lias affccted his brain. — 27. assurer: insure.

50 5. rosace : an ornamental projection in the form of a rose or star; a center-piece. — 6. Tenez: an exclamation merely. — en: for it. — 28. frappant: striking. — 30. de travers: crooked.

51 1. qualités: generally used, as hère, in the sensé of good qualifies.— 10. romance: a graceful, simple song; ballad. — 15. nouveau: sarcastic. — 23. jeter l'or par les fenêtres: a very common expression for spending money freely. — 27. convenu: agreed. — 33. Je vous demande pardon : excuse me. A polite way of saying that the interview is over.

52 27. Pour ce que ça vous coûte : as it costs you so little.

53 1. Déchirant: tearing out of the check-book. — 2. A toucher: to be cashed. — 8. tu n'es que : you are on/y ... — 21. un brun : a darkcomp/exioned man ; the masculine équivalent of brunette. — 23. soit resté: subjunctive because the allusion is not to any definite person or case. — 33. allez : hère a strengthening exclamation ; perhaps certain/y.

54 1 5. pour le faire soigner : to hâve him caredfor.

55 11. par exemple: well> now! — 19. Parti de rien: kaving started ■with nothing. — 20. plus de: rather than p/us que, because a numéral follows. — 26. à moi il m'a offert: object repeated for the sake of emphasis; the first time disjunctive with préposition, the second conjunctive because next the verb. — 28. — Tout ce que vous voudrez: put as you say about it.

563. le premier venu: an ordinary man. — 13. comment vous êtes-vous quittés: how did you leave each other? how did you separate? — 19. quoi: the que of 1. 16, repeated this time in the disjunctive form, because it is not next the verb. — 28. à deux battants: both leaves, i. e., wide open. — 30. raisonnerai : a transitive verb, hence taking the direct object le. How is it in English?

57 5. Prends garde de le perdre : take care not to lose him ! The

command is evidently addressed to herself. — 25. et par lettre chargée encore : and by registered letter too !

58 5. C'est ce qui vous trompe: there' s where you're mistaken.

— 14. grâce : phase! — 26. Voilà qui est curieux : thafs strange.

5919. en cocher: as a cabman. — 29. la différence: Hortense's servant was paying the supposed coachman the régulation two francs per hour, but the latter was giving the servant three francs an hour for choosing his carriage rather than another.

60 12. Enfin: in short. — 13. à . . . par là-bas: she starts to tell where, but it occurs to her that she dpesn't knovv where, and she ends with "over there." — 14. ce n'est pas la peine d'en parler: it isn't worth speaking of.

61 2. renonçant: evidently not transitive. English? — 3. flûte: Fougasson is wrong about the nationality of this word. He may hâve caught it from the French slang expression, "jouer des flûtes," "play the thin legs," i. e. "run away." Such a colloquialism might naturally be as unfamiliar to Hortense as if it really were "an American word." ■ — Quelle drôle d'histoire: what a strange story! — 27. faire paît: to inform.

62 3. c'est vous qui l'aurez voulu : " it will oe you that wished it so." — 12. ses jours: his life. — 16. corbeille à ouvrage : work-basket.

63 3. en train de: in the act of. — 13. en baisse: falling. — 19. ça ne se peut pas: that is impossible. — 23. qui vit, ni qui meurt: présent with future meaning. — 25. Veuillez reprendre: please take back. — 28. se reprend : Reflexive with passive meaning. — 29. m'en faire : see 53 30 and 54 14.

64 8. baisse : baisser, with this meaning, is ordinarily transitive.

67 1. rez-de-chaussée: see 24 22, note. — 2. donnant: opening.

— 7. plus de: see 55 20, note. — 9. grand'ville: several combinations of the adjective grand with a féminine noun are thus written with the apostrophe: e. g., grand 'mère, grand 'messe. There is however, no good authority for writing grande ville so. — 10. C'est que : it is because.

— 13. une fois de plus : one time more. — 14. pourvu que: one of the conjunctive phrases which are always followed by the subjunctive.

68 7. cela fait voir aux jeunes filles: see 19 14, note. — 10. en rêvez-vous parfois de votre futur mari : a pleonastic construction, as the meaning of de votre futur mari is implied in the pronoun en. — 12. si je ne me trompe: what omission? — l'un des plus superbes: notice the use of the article at the beginning of this phrase.— 17. qu'il ne tient pas : that there isn 7 room for h im .

69 s Dès qu'il aura: see 12 9, note. — 18. j'entrerais tout de suite à son service : entrer denoting actual physical motion is followed by the préposition dans. In its figurative meanings it takes sometimes à, sometimes en. — 29. vous auriez dû : you should hâve.

70 8. de mon mieux: as well as I could. — 19. en: because of it. — 21. prendre votre courage à deux mains: pluck up courage.— 25. grognement: a sign of disapproval at the play or the public address.

71 5. Ce que c'est que d'être: that s what cornes of being . . .— 17. m'eût étonnée: the pluperfect subjunctive for the compound conditional is very common.

72 13. qu'il a l'air terrible: we might hâve had comme in place of qtte ; how terrible it looks ! — 21. en soie cuite : of boiled silk. In the

préparation of silk it is boiled with soap to remove the gum. 28.

Elle joint les mains : the French avoids the use of the possessive except when necessary to make the meaning clear.

73 5. tous: tous means everybody. Everything would be tout. — 6. Il fait le soumis: he's pretending to be very humble. — 31. sous le bras: see 72 28, note. — comme (vous le porteriez) si vous suiviez: abbreviation of a contrary-to-fact condition, hence suiviez, imperfect indicative.

74 22. l'homme: the generic article, which is not expressed in English. — 27. qui le regardent de travers: in American slang, who look cross-eyed at him. — 32. que je regrette : see 72 13, note.

75 30. il est très-mal à un gentleman : its very wrongfor a gentle-

man.

77 12. Qu'avez-vous : what s the matUr with you? — 27. doit être bien fâché: surely must be very angry.

78 8. Que veut-elle dire: what does she mean? — 13. il y tenait: he set great store by it. — 17. perdu jusqu'au souvenir : gone so far as

to forget. — 21. que je lui savais pour moi: that I knew ht felt for me.

79 i. me piquer au jeu : to stimulate my interest in the game. — 5. là : là is sometimes translatable by hère. — 9. ce pauvre diable : means no more to the French ear than " that poor wretch " to the sensitive English organ.

80 16. tout petit: very small.

81 1. Il l'aura oublié: he probably forgot it. — 27. Elle fait mine de se retirer : she starts as if to retire.

8231. en se donnant le bras: literally, giving each other their arms; i. e. arm in arm.

EXERCISES FOR RETRANSLATION

L'ÉTÉ DE LA SAINT-MARTIN Scène I

As for me, I am going to hunt the first volume on the first floor. As the curtain rises, I am reading aloud to my brother, who never takes his eyes from me. Our door opens on a terrace. He hastens, in order not to keep his brother waiting. D'Artagnan injured himself. He forced the woman whom he had frightened, to sit down. Very well ; but I beg of you not to take the trouble. They would scold me if I climbed on a chair.