Surprise, elle l'était certainement, surprised she

certairdy was. Note tins use of /e, équivalent to the English colloquial 4 that ' in * I am that ;' and see I-»ess 44, v. Note. .

23. me mettre un morceau sous le dent, to take a morsel to eat.

126.— 7. dont vous me direz des nouvelles, with which you witt be pleased. Lit, ' of which you will tell nie news/ an idiom of fréquent use.