je saurai ça, 'I shall find out about thaï

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1. 2. c'' étaient des Autrichiens? 'they were Austrians?' ce\% used wilh the vcrb in the plural when a plural of the third pcrson foUows ;

when a plural pronoun follows of the Jirst or second person the verb agrées with ce, e.g. c'cs( fions, cest vous.

1. 32. un de nos fournisseurs, 'one of our purveyors' or 'army contractors'.

1. 37. il se gine devant le inonde, ' he is ill at ease before strangers '.

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1. 17, vous avez totiché votre argent? 'you hâve received your money ?' Toucher, v. a. 'to touch'; toucher, v. n. with à=:'to meddle witn', with a'i? = 'to play on (a musical instrument)'; touchez /rt = 'shake hands'.

1. 24. toujours délier les cordons, 'always untie my purse-strings'.

1. 27. les lions comptes font les bons atnis (Prov.), 'short reckonings make long friends'.

1, 1. dibloquer Philipsbourg, 'raise the siège of Philipsburg'. See Introd. p. vii.

1. 8. r archiduc Charles, lui, 'Archduke Charles, for his part'; lui [s, hère empliatic ; this is a coinmon use of the disjunctive pronouns. Archduke Charles was younger brother of the Emperor Francis II of Germany.

1. 9. 7ie pouvaient plus sevoir, 'no longer could endure one another ' ; se voir =^hea.r each other's sight' ; s'entendre— 'to agrée'.

1. 14. c'est juste, 'of course', 'quite right and proper' (said hère ironically).