A la vérité = ‘indeed.\ Note ttiat à la vm^e=indeed

to be sure, I admit : A la venté je vous ai dit cela, mais

j^ai voulu vous dite . . . , , I admit I did tell you that, but I

wanted to tell you Distinguisb from en vérité, in

truth, certainly.

11. — Exemplaire = ‘ copy ’ of a book or engraving ; but copie, ‘ copy ’ of a painting or a writing.

11. — Jeter le livre au feu. Note the à after jeter. Sometimes we hâve dans, cf. jeter de Vhuile dans le feu, throw oil on the lire.

1 6. — Pardonne aux folies. Pardonner has the following constructions : (1) /c lui ai pardonné, I hâve pardoned him ; j'ai pardonné sa faute, I hâve pardoned his fault : je lui ai pardonné sa faute, I hâve pardoned him his fault. (The object, when a person, is always indirect.) (2) Qui pardonne au crime en devient le complice, He who pardons crime become an accomplice in it. (The object, when a thing, is sometimes, as it were, personified and like names of persons, becomes indirect).

20.— Le malheureux Ugolin.— Ugolino, Count délia Gherardesca, absolute ruler of Pisa during the years 1282-1288. He obtained chief power through the co-operation of the archbishop, Roger degli Ubaldini. Having, however, in a fit of passion, accidentally stabbed Roger’s nephew, he was overthrown by the archbishop and shut up with his two sons and two grandsons in a tower, there to perish from hunger. See Dante, Inferno, xxxiii., where the death scene is pictured with terrible strength.