c'est entendît, 'it is ail settled

1. 29. une bonne prise de tabac, 'a good pinch of snuff'; pris, past part, oï prendre, bas given the subst. /;7.ft' and the vcxh priser ('to take suuff).

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1. 1. la foule se tasse, 'the crowd accumulâtes' ; en petite tenue, 'in undress uniform.

1. 7. brochures sous le bras, 'pamphlets under his arm'. Note le instead oison; cp. p. 6, 1. 8.

1. 13. ne vous gênez pas; 'do not stand upon ceremony'; gcver\% derived from géiie (trouble) which has lost the meaning q[ torture which it had from ils original gchcntia.

1. 14. prenez garde qu'on n'enlevé quelque chose, 'see that nothing is stolen'. The ne after verbs of hindering, fearing, etc. is not the négation, but the Lat. ne passed into French ; if however ne is in the first clause of the sentence it must not appear in the second, e.g. je ne crains pas qu'il vienne.

1. 20. vous n assistez donc pas au Te Deiim, 'you do not attend the Te Deum' ; assister à= 'to be présent at'.

1. 22. hé! que voulez-vous... i 'what will you hâve me do...?' i.e. 'How can I ? the language {les propos) used by Suwarroff about the Austrians is not easy of digestion' .

1. 34. traiter ..'to speak of or 'qualify oldsoldiers'.../^j/;-a//<^r f/^... 'to apply to ihem the name of coxcombs'.

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1. 4. allons donc.. .du génie. '...'gti along!...call that genius!' cp.

1. 12. la figure et surtout le front couverts ...'■ \\\q face and especially the brow furrowed vvith innumerable wrinkles'. Obs. that couverts is masc. pi. because one of the two subst. (le front) is masc.