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le surlendemain, < two days after

671. loué à d'honnêtes oontrehandlera, 'hired from honest smugglers'; loué â might also mean Met out to,' but the context shows that this cannot be the case. N, B, de, because an adjective précèdes the noun. Honnête^ ' honest,' i,e, ' good sort of people.'

675. m'ayant fUt holre force rasades, ' having made me toss ofF one bumper after another.' N,B. force followed immediately by the noun=: ' many a.'

683. J'eus dormi : past anterior to be osed instead of the past perfect (pluperfect indic.) (*I had slept') after a conjunction of time, lorsque, when the principal verb is in the past

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