à ta commodité, at your convenicTice, when you like

24. plus fEdte pour ; lit. better made to ; better adapted, more

calcuUUed.

25. des mauvais traitements ; note the partitive des before the

adjective mauvais. As a rule, the partitive article, before an adjective, is translated by de, should the foUowing substantive be no further defined. But when an adjective, qualifying a substantive, merges into the latter, the two are looked upon as a simple substantive, and treated as such.

2Z, traitée; could also be spelt traiter, ^\., dA <wm qfvu^f^^ut^. traiter elle-même.

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6. 28. elle revint à la chariire ; lit. slie retumed to tbe c

éhe renewed her entreoMes,

29. à plusieurs reprises; lit seyeral times and saccessively ; repeatedly, over amd over again,

7. 16. s'occupait peu de prières, was not much given topraying.

20. sa raison s'était formée ; lit her reason had fonned, had

shaped, itself; her jtutgrnent had matured.