à reporter sur elle, to transfer to her

61, — 9. Je songeai . . . que c'est, 1 thought that it was. Note that éest is présent tense, referring to time coïncident with that of the principal verb. It is put in the past by attraction in English, while the présent is logically retained in French.

10. que d'être malheureux, to be unfortunate. Note the apparently redundant que, introducing the logical subject of c'est. It points out the latter more definitely,

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and may sometimes be rendered by ' naraely/ although usually omitted in English. Compare 61-26.