je ne passe guère, Ipass but seldom

14. sans que j'en eusse le moindre soupçon, without my having the least suspicion of it.

16. ce sont, il was. Note the use of the présent in French where the past is usual in English ; and also observe that à est is replaced by ce sont usually before a predicate nominative of the third person plural. See Less. 49, viL

19. c'est justement parce qu'elle est sage que je ne l'écoute pas, it is exactly because she is vrise that I do not listen to her ; i. e., Thérèse is wise in a narrow and useless economy, so he does not heed her, for he has always preferred the (so called) foolishness of the passions to the (so-called) wisdom of indifférence (which suppresses such innocent indulgence of one's tastes).