Lui brûler le cœur. Lui-[-le=hi^. IL

27. — La voilà. Note the position of personal pronoun objects with the prepos. voilà and voici. Le voilà, there he is ; nous voici, here we are, etc.

30. — Elle a dû nous entendre, ‘ She must hâve heard us.’ Note that the Eng. construction after ‘ must,’ ‘ ought,’ ‘ can,’ requires the compound tense with the following auxiliary, since these verbs hâve no past participle. The corresponding Fr. verbs are not defective, consequently the formation of the tenses is regular. Cf. 18, 1.

22. 4. — S’est sauvée. Se sauver has here its usual meaning of

s’ échapper, escape.

5. — En un tour de main==e?i aussi peu de temps, qu\l en faut pour tourner la main, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye.

9. — Mis en faction. Factlon=guet, watch, sentry ; hence mettre en faction=pVit (on sentry).

12. — C’est une jeunesse. “ Jeunesse= youth (a period of life), youthfulness, childhood and youth (collectively of both sexes, or only of males). Its use here for one person {une personne jeune, une jeune ^Wc) is popular. See 6, 1.

15. — Y eût été pris. The construction prendre à may be noted in such expressions as : fl prend du poisson à la ligne ; il se laisse prendre an plhje (suarc). Ont of the literal use of prendre grows the figurative \\s,c.=iromper ; hence, Ne vous laissez pas prendre à ses paroles, Do not be deceived by lier words. Consequently here render r ‘ would hâve been deceived by it.’