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5 Troublé: Moved, affected, 2 À ça, for à cela: In that.
9% .: ons donc: Come, do.
2% Morbleu: Zounds!
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ÿ Ça n'est pas, for cela n'est pas : That is not.
6 Qu'autre chose: Than any other thing, than anything else. 9 L'allée des peupliers : The poplars waik,
10 Où je ne m'étais pas promenéce : Where I had not walked,
12 Dans le gazon: On the grass, :
15 Je ne m'y attendais pas: T was not expecting to see them; I was not prepared for it,
15 Saisie: Struck, startled,
17 Fait tant de mal: Paired me so much.
18 Ne me vit pas pleurer : Should not see me cry.
19 Pour le coup c'est de l'enfantillage: This time, it is chiläishness,
20 Fous deviez bien vous attendre : You should have expected.
21 Que diable! Surely! indeed! of course! The word diable in French conversation is neither coarse nor profane ; it is constantly used as an exclamation. It is used for emphasising, as in que diable me voulez-vous ? What in the world do you want of me? cela est fait à la diable, that is done anyhow; il n'est pas si diable qu'il est noir, he is better than he looks. As a noun, it means the matter, the point, as: ce n'est pas le diable, it is no great matter; cela ne vaut pas le diable, it is not worth a button, c'est là le diable ! that's just where it is, More often it means fellow,asin ce pauvre diable, this poor fellow; un pauvre diable, an unlucky fellow; c'est un bon diable, he is not a bad fellow: nous som:.es de bons diables, We are jolly fellows; «n grand diable d'homme, a very tall fellow.
2 Qui arrive: Which happens.
2% On s'amuse: Pevple amuse themselves,
25 Sans elle: Without him, the person,
26 {n'y a pas là: There is not, there is nothing there.
21 Ft se fâche: And is vexed, is angry with himself at his own weeping.
! Voyons! voyons ! Come! come !
28 Si vous n'y prenez garde : If you do not take care,
31 M'inquiète: Makes me uneasy.
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A tous moments: At every moment. '
Il ne faut pas nous faire d'illusion: We must not deceive ourselves.
ÆEntendons : Cencert, agree together on some plan.
La distraire: To divert her.
IL faut d'abord ne pas sangloter : First, vou must not he sobbing.
De ce qu'elle avait consenti: Because she had consented.
Malheureuses : T-fated.
Encore ! Again!
Ces coquines de fleurs: These rascally flowers. Coquin, coquine, comes from the Latin coquus, a cook. Among the slaves at Rome the cooks were most rapacious and extravagant of their master’ provisions, which they could easily misuse.
Madame: Mistress.
Qui a l'air: Who has the look, who seems,
A la bonne heure! That is right! This expression comes from the custom of the ancients to divide the day into good and bad hours, lucky and unlucky hours; soon à good thing was said to be made at à good hour. ‘The French had also formerly la male heure.
Le voila: There it is,
Il y a silongtemps que: There is so long since.
Allez, allez: Be sure, believe me.
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Nous avions toutes perdu la tête: We were all frightened out vf our senses,
Soins: Attentions.
Tout ce que nous te devons: AI we owe you.
l'a: Be sure, believe me. The parts of the verb allie used as exclamations are—vre, allez, indeed, be sure, ana allons! come! There is also -al//ons donc! nonsense! allez-y, go in for it: and allez-y voir, go and sce,
Je l'aime bien: Lam very fond of you.
Voilà que tu pleures: Now you a: crying.
Je l'y prends: Ecatch vou at it,
C'est qu'aussi: Of course, naturally.
Des choses: Such things,
Allons! allons! ne n'attendrissez pas: Come! come! do not weaken me, soften me,
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