Mises en campagne. Campagne “country,” as

distinguished from the town, but also, as here=“campaign.” Cf. Les armées sont en campagne. Mettre des gens en campagne= faire agir des gens pour le succès d'une affaire. Render: “settowork.”

Distinguish campagne, pays, patrie, meaning “ country.”

27. — Ne sut pas venir à bout. Savoir is used in French where in English “ can ” is employed when it i^ a question of mental ability. So : Savez-vous écrire ? Can you Write? Do you know (how to) Write? V(nîr à bout d'une chose, lit., “ corne to the end of athing,” parvenir

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à faire une chose, hence “to succeed in doing it.” Hence, render : ‘ could not succeed in.’

13. 28. — Il s’agissait- The force of s'agir may be rendered in

English by (1) to be at stahe ; Il s'agit de sa vie, His life is at stake ; (2) to be a question of, to be the matter ; De quoi s' agit-il ? What is the matter ? Render here ‘that were concerned.’

29. — Après avoir invité. The Fr. infinitives after a préposition will be frequently rendered by Eng. ‘gerunds,’ ‘After having invited.’ So “sans réveiller," “without awakening” 13, 32. Read carefully II., 251, note.

32. — Ce que Cornélius fit. The relative referring to a clause is ce qui (nom.), ce que (obj.), and after a préposition quoi. Cf. 1, 12 and note, 14, 20. See IL, 144, note 2.