fend la presse, 'forces his way through the throng

1 27. je vous cherche depuis une Iieure, '1 hâve been looking for you for the last hour'. With depuis, if the action is still going on, the simple tense is used in French, where the compound tense is used in English ; e.g. I hâve been there a long while=j'y suis depuis longtemps ; cp. Lat. jamdudum ibi sutn.

1. 31. qui sait si je vous rencontrerai d'' ici quinze jours? 'Whoknovvs whether I shall see you again for a whole fortnight?' Obs. quinze joiirs (fifteen days) = 'a fortnight' (fourteen nights).

1. 34. non! pas tout à fait, viatouchka, 'no! not altogether, molher'.

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1. 14. qu est-ce qu'' il nous finit de plus? 'What do we want more?' This genitive de plus, de moins, lor nu^-e, less, ahvays comes atter rien, quelque chose, quoi, qtie, and after numerals; cp. Rien de diflîcile — Deux cents hommes de blessés.

1. 18. rappelle-toi ce que je t'ai dit, ' remember what I told you ' ; se rappeler ('to recall to oneself') is followed by the ace. while se souvenir ('to hâve recollection') takes the genitive.

1. 22. pope, 'priest'. der. kom papa, 'father'. Among the Russians the priests of the Greek ritual are called 'popes'.

1. 27, mes âmes en Esthonie, 'my people (dépendants) in Esthonia'. This district of Western Russia lies between the gulfs of Finland and of Riga.

1. 31. qu'est-ce qui demande, ioïqtii est-ce gui demande,' \\\\o\\ZLn\.s!

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1. 3. la feuille, 'the printed pamphlet '; /tv////i', from pi. foUa, mistaken, in the infancy of the Fr. language, for a subst. sing. of the tirst declension (Lat. yt^A«/«, pi. y^//a); the viovàs corne, poire, pomme, are similar instances.

1. 7, tiens, t?ion brave, 'hère, my good fellow'; brave is often used in the sensé of konest, in which case it précèdes the subst. if there be one.