TABLEAU IV

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The scène of Tableau IV is the plateau at the top of the pass of the St Gothard ; the Hospice has been partly burnt down and is in ruins ; the ground around it is strewn with the bodies of the dead and dying. The spy Ogiski, disguised as a Russian priest, contrives to leam what are

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tlie plans of the Allies and rides off to warn the French gênerai that the jVustrians, under Aufienber;^, hâve made a détour and are about to fall on his rear (through the Maderaner-Thal) at Amstag.

1. 11. éclairées de rhitérieur, 'lighted up from the inside' ; note that de is /y, with, a.nd /rom as well as of.

1. 12. des torches s''y promiitent, 'torches move to and fro'. Verbs that bave an e mute or é before the termination of the infin. change tliis into è before a mute termination when the stem consonant is not doubled.

1. 14. s'' entendent confusément, 'are indistinctly heard'. Note the pronominal for the passive form ; cp. p. i, 1. 9.

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