Mail, par exemjlle, ' But there is one tbing I can do

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Par exemple, =literally * for instance,' is a conversational idiom, the meaning of which varies in almost every context. As an exclamation, * Bless my heart ! * generally translates it with fair accuracy. As an exclamation of surprise, par exttnpîe = * not possible ! '

24^. comin« ., • . réiBOlation, 'as I had resolved to do.' En, see note, 1. 212.

248. C'est quelque chose, 'thât's sometking,* See Appendix I. A. il.

249. Asseyons-noas, ' let us sit down.' Nous is added bere, because the verb is reflexive, s'asseoir, * Let us love ^^ aimons,

alxnoiis-nous= * let us love one another.' 251. pour passer à g^auclie de, 'and passed to the left of.' Lit. ' in order to pass.'

252-3. le menton . . . ftislls, ' with theîr Ôhins resting upon the muzzle of their rifles.* N.B. le menton^ singular, because each had but one chin : for * parts of the body ' the French always consider the individual, we, ail the persons meant, e,g, * they raised their heads ^ = ils levèrent la tête,