arrivée = étant arrivée

26. avec Joie ; note the omission of the article ; joyfully. In ail

adverbial locutions composed of a préposition and a substantive, the definite article is omitted Wore the latter.

27. qu'elle avait bien de la peine à supporter ; lit which she

had much trouble in bearing ; wMch she had hœrdly strenffth enxmgh to go through, to p&rform ; which she foimd very hard toperfonn. Note the definite article after bien.

29. tout entière, wholly ahsorbed. Tout, when adjective, means all,^ every, and is made to agrée with the substantive before which it is placed ; when adverb, it means qv/Ucy and is invariable, except when it modifies an adjective féminine beginning with a consonant or an h aspirate. It is then put in the féminine, and even in the féminine plural.

30. prendre en patience, to hear pcttieutln mtk ^^TJkûX.^^Siww'î^ L 26.

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8. 1. dès sa première Jeunesse ; lit. from his first youth ; fnm his early yoiUh,