se passer de ='\q> do without

1. 8. cause, 'chats' ; causer, 'to talk', from Lat. causari, 'to défend a cause', 'to discuss' ; causer, 'to be ihe cause of, 'to occasion', from Lat. causa.

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1. 18. pris à plusieurs, 'taken several togelher'. 1. 21. le long des deux lacs et des deux rivières, 'along the two lakes (Zurich and Wallen) and the two rivers (Limmat and Linth)', 1. 32. il a fallu se rendre, 'we hâve had to surrender'.

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1. 27. ef pas de viande? 'and no méat?' Elliptical for et vous n'avez pas eu de viande ?

1. 32. ils jouent aux cartes, ' they play cards '. Note that jouer à = ' to play {at) a ^2iVi\ç.\ jouer ûV='to play (on) an instrument'.

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1. 9. avec les Suisses rouges, 'with the red-coated Swiss' (in the pay of Kngland).

1. 20. m^eti a flus appris, 'has given me more light'; <7«=:about it. 1. 24. le landa})iann en tête, 'ihe mayor at the head of it'.

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1. 3. Ah! ho7t... arrive! 'Ah! ail right.. corne on !' 1. 18. et ptiis, farrii'e, 'and tlien I shali be back'. Note the présent tense used for the immédiate future.

1. 6. çu^elle souffre depuis trois ans, ' that it has endured for the last three years'; cp. p. -, 1. 27.

1. 11. ayant droit de bourgeoisie, ' worthy of ranking as the upper class'.

1. 21. dans nia baraque en Esthonie, 'in my cabin in Eithonia'.

1. 25. bicoques, 'huts', 'hovels'. ^/Vc»!//^^ is of Ital. origin {bieocca).

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1. 13. le service des réquisitions, 'the dealing out of the provisions' (extorted from the inhabitants). Réquisition means a demand made for a supply of provisions, money, men, etc. for mililary purposcs.

L 22. seine muette, 'dumb-show'.

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1. 9. Korsahoi.v ne dit rien... bon signe! 'KorsakofT sends no information— this is a good sign!'

1. 20. je te cro\cns bavarde, 'I thought you were a chatterbox'.

1. 21. et que j'ai bu deux ou trois l>ons coups, 'and when I hâve had two or three stifT glasscs'; que is hcre used to avoid the répétition of quand.

1. 27. nous en avons vu du pays, 'we hâve seen plenty of country'; en is heio redundant for the sake of emphasis.

1. 30. avec du bon bceuj et du bon pain ; why du and not de? See p. 9, 1. 24.

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1. 13. nous allons les arranger, ' we are going to settle them (do for themi".

L 19. vous enlèverez le pont, 'you will carry (Mil.) the bridge'.

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1. 12. vtais nous en viendrons à bout, 'but we shall finally triumph over them'.

1. 22. elle sent bon, 'it smells good ', Adj. in Fr. are sometimes used adverbially as in Eng.

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1. 2. au camp de Toulczinc.à Varsovie, 'at the camp of Tultcha (near Ismail) and at the grand sword and bayonetpractice at Warsaw'.

1. 11. tapez... tapez ferme... '■Yiw. a\vay...hit liard, it will teach them to parry'. Obs. that parer is both 'to parry' and 'to adorn' from Lat. parare, 'to prépare' for a blow or for a show.

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1. G. m'' entre jusque dans les jambes, 'sets me a-dancing', lit. 'gets down even to my legs'.

1. 19. est mort au grand pont, 'died at the great bridge', i.e. at the blowing up of the bridge at Andermatt ; Tableau V, Scène XV.

1. 22. mais lui n\-st plus là, 'but he is no longer hère'. Note that disjunclive pronouns of the third person (lui, eux) can be used as subject to the verb, but conjunctive pronouns must be used after the disjunctives of the first and second person, e.g. 'moi,;> le dis ; toi, tu le crois.'

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1. 3. soyez tranquille, 'do not be uneasy'; restez iranquille = ^he quiet'.

1. 8. le refrain, 'the burden of the song'; verbal subst. from refraindre (Lat. refrangcre), 'to break', as the refrain breaks a song into equal parts.