bien ftdt, well adapted
19. l'on croirait ôtre, one migTU fancy one*8 self; lit. one would
think he is.
24. Ce payB est-il ; note that in interrogative sentences, when
the subject is a snbstantive, it begins the sentence, and a personaî çrononn, aerecing with it in gender and nnmber, is placed immediately after the verb.
26. Onellle, Oneglia, small town of Northern Italy, on the Bay
of Genoa.
Je n'habite ici que depuis, Ihave heen îiving hère orily since. See note p. 2, 1. 13.
88. 1. est morte depuis deux ans, died two years ago, has heen dead thèse two years.
7. celui que Je tiens de ma fàjnille, the one which my parents
transmitted to me.
11. qui Je suis, Guasco Pietro Bemardo, as may be g^thered from the register of the parish of Aosta.
25. Je suis souvent solitaire par choix, / often isoîate myself
of my own accord.
27. que vous ne le pensez, than you think ; le = qull y en a,
and may be omitted. See note p. 9, L 2.
28. J'ai de la peine à la concevoir ; la = solitude étemelle ;
lit. I hâve some trouble in conceiving it ; Icam, hardlyform an idea of it.
80. Celui qui chérit ...,'' Mane cum Eo in cella, quia non invenies alibi tanMm pacem.*' — De Iraitatione Chnsti, chap. i. v. 20.
84. 1. Imitation de Jésus-Christ, a religions treatise, about the authorship of which there is divergence of opinion.
8. s'adoucit ; translate by the passive, and note the use of the
reflexive construction to express a passive meaning. This construction is often used, and elegantly so.
8. Je travaille à me tàtre des habits, / toork at making som^ garm^entsfor myself.