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author should receive the mpst careful attention. Our author excels in expressing moods of pensive reflection and memory, and they occur so frequently in this volume that they are one of its main characteristics.

10. — 27. il serait, ce fils, que dis-je, il aurait vingt-ans, he would be, that son, what am I saying, he would be twenty years old. Note that the ellipsis in French after serait is not the âge, which is expressed by avoir, but some such expression as 'un jeune homme.' Also note that que dis-je is about équivalent to an exclamatory clause 'is it possible!'