TABLEAU VIII

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We havc once more before our eyes, as on tlic Saint-Gothard (Tableau IV), a night scène after a battle. Suwarroff has succeeded in driving back Moiitor's troops towards Nafcls, but he finds it impossible to force a passage northwards bcyond this village, and he is now preparing to retreat over the mountains into the Grisons by Kngi and ^Iatt. To the ordinary horrors of a battlc-ficld, after a blocidy figlit, are hère added the harrowing scènes of wounded Russians crushcd undcr the wheels of the guns that arc being hurried through the narrow streets of the village in the vain attempt to save thcm from falling into the hands of the pursuing enemy.

1. 4. masures, 'hovels', 'ruinous dwellings'; masure from Lat. mansura is properly 'a résidence', from tnanere.

NOTES. l'iS

1. 8. un groupe cT hommes descend; the verb descend is in the sing. bccause the body of men is more prominent in the mind than the individual men. Rule : When the collective noun is followed by a plu. subst. the verb is in the sing. if the collective is prominently the agent, and in the plural if it is the plu. subst. that is présent to the mind; cp. p. 126, 1. 8.

1. 27. poiinni çu^Iva7iozui!che...*^xo\\àe(}i that'... = 'I trust that Ivanowitche is not wounded'.

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1. 9. Ç7ie voulez-vous que f y fasse? 'What will you hâve me do?' = 'What can I do?' Note the force ofj)' = to\vards it.

1. 10. on vous relever a, 'the ambulance will take care of you', lit. 'will pick you up'. Note that verbs which hâve e mute (or é) before the termination of the inf. change this into è before a silent syllable. Cp. p. 48, 1. 12.

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1. 6. le Rymnik, 'the Rymnik régiment'; se called after the victory over the Turks, at Rymnik; simllarly Jsmaïl, 'the Ismaïl régiment'