Ne peut tarder. For the omission of the négative, see

II., 264, 1. Tarder means, (1) to belong : Rose de mai, pourquoi tarder encore à revenir, May rose, why still so long in Corning back ; elle tarde à venir, slie is long in Corning ; (2) (impersonal) to long : il lui tarde de venir, she longs to corne See I., p. 145, 3.

30. — La nue. Nue is synonymous with nuage, but, except in a few colloquial phrases, is chiefiy employed in lofty style. In a figurative sense nuage is used of sorrow,

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error ; while nuée (lit. a great black cloud) is used of multitudes.