Par nos erreurs. ‘ In our illusions

11. — Ce n’est plus cela, lit., ‘ It is no longer that (so).’

‘ Things are not now as they were.’

1 7. - Il ne tiendrait qu’ à moi. ‘ Tenir ’ used impersonally, as hcre, means that obstacles, etc., are in the way. A quoi tient-il que ?ious partions ? What is to prevent our leaving ? S'il ne tient qu'à lui donner cette somme, je la donnerai. If therc* is no other hindrance than giving him that sum, I shall give it. The phrase il ne tient pas à une personne generally dénotés not only that there is no hindrance from a person, but that there is his assistance. Il ne tinidra pas à moi qu'un tel n'ait satisfaction, It will not be my fault if so-and-so does not get satisfaction.

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The présent passage may be rendered, lit., ‘ There would be no one but myself to prevent ’ ; and freely, ‘ It would not be difficult for me.’

8] ■ 17.— Cette rose sèche que voilà. So : Uhomme que voilà, That man there. Les beaux sentiments que voilà, Fine sentiments such as those. E,ender, ‘ this dead rose of mine. ’

20. — Et le soir. ‘ In the evening.’ Note that the Fr. do not say “ dans le soir.”

24.— À se regarder elle-même. Note the mode of emphasizing the pronoun by répétition.

26.— Mettait la dernière main, ‘was putting afinishing touch.’ Note the différence in idioms.

32. — Son carreau. Dictionaries usually overlook this sense of carreau. Neither the Academy nor Littré contains it. In Clifton-Grimaux it is defined as ‘ housewife, case for needles, pins, thread, etc.’ Translators render it ‘pincushion,’ which is in Fr, pelote.