votre Seigneurie, 'your Ladyship

1. 24. il méfait du bon sang, 'he brings health to me', i.e. 'I enjoy hisflattery'; sim. Faire faire du fiiauvais sajig à = ''\.o annoy'. The partitive article is replaced by de before nouns preceded by an adj. except (i) when the noun and adj. forni a compound word (e.g. at'j jeunes gens = 'youths'), (2) when the article is to be emphasised.

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1. 3. un gaillard qui m'' a l'air heureux, 'a fellow who looks happy'. Obs. the redundant me=milii ; the adj. which accompanies the expression avoir l'air agrées with the word air when it obviously qualifies that substantive, but not otherwise ; hère heureux c\\\dA'\f:its gailla>-d.

1. 5. voilà que tout se 7-emet en marche, 'ail are on the march once more'.

1. 7. passe-moi la trique... 'ha.nd me the cudgel, this old she-goat (of a mare) will not get along'.

1. 9. nous ne sommes pas si presses, 'we are not in so great a hurry'.

1. 11. de beaux hommes, ' hne men '. Obs. that the article du, de la, des {de or d' before an adj.) must always be used in French whenever some or aiiy could be introduced in the English.

1. 16. chacun sa partie, 'to every one his allotted portion'.

1.17. s\'branlent, 'begin pealing'; s'ébranler, 'to stagger', or 'totter', isused to convey the idea of a mass beginning to move.

1. 25. cei-ner, 'to surround', 'encircle', derived hom cerne, 'a ring', 'circle', Lat. circinus, contracted into circ'nus, then cirnus, and fmally cerne.