sans . . . sans, vrithout either . . , or

85. 1. Au reste ; du reste could also be used hero. Thèse expressions are nearly ^non3ntnous and often used indifierently. Yet there is a différence : au reste implies rather a conséquence of, du reste, an opposition to, what précèdes. Au reste would therefore be translated — after cUl, taken altogether ; du reste — apartfrom thaJt^ besules.

2. si vous tenez si fort à ; lit. if you hold so strongly to ;

if you are so determined upon.

vous rendre chez ; lit. to betake yourself to the house of ; to call at that lady*s.

3. à deux pas d'ici ; lit. two steps from hère ; dose by hère,

5. si l'on ne vous y retient pas; lit. if they do not keep you back in that house ; if you are nx)t asked to stay.

7. entra dans ; dan^ is not translated, the En^lish verb being transitive in English, whilst it is intransitive in FrencL

8, femmoBt/emale servarUs, maids.

9, €!hez elle ; what sensé -woul^ t\ie Beii\«\i^^\i.wï^SS. cSs>»l ^^ were plural ?

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85. 12. Pviis-Je voir Mme Milln ? lit. may I, can I see . . .lis Mrs. Milin où home f

13. la voici ; 'hère she is. Void = voi(s), ci ; see hère ; and la voici = vois la ici

17. méchante, unkind, ill-disposed. Méchant, when placed before the substantive, has sometimes the sensé of hadj vjretched ; im méchant poète, a poor poet.