Qu’est-ce que vous me voulez. has here

the force of depriving ; hence it may hâve an indirect object : ‘ What do you wish of me ? ’ Cf. Qu' est-ce qu'on me veut donc, 28, 20.

23. 1. Donnait la fièvre, ‘ greatly excited.’ See p. 19, 1. 24,

note.

4. — Qu’est-ce qui?=what? (nom.) Qui (^est-ce g?a) = who? But often qui itself=‘ what ’ in the nominative case, or rather it has a neutral force which may be rendered as the context requires by ‘ who ’ or ‘ what.’ Cf. 24, 24.

11. — Ce que l’on voulait- Le is ofteu used with on after the

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vowel Sound of ‘ que ’ in place of the élision of e in qu'on ; so in où Von ne distinguait que (23, 20) after the vowel Sound of où ; so also in et Von m'accuse (27, li), because t in et in French is always silent. The use of V to prevent the hiatus would not be necessary if on were immediately followed by l (as in le, la, leur, etc.), for then the allitération would be more unpleasant than the hiatus.

23. 27. — Joliment peur. Jolim.ent is very colloquial for extrême-

ment, Of. the colloquial Eng., ‘ gave me a jolly good fright ! ’

28. — Quand l’un des agents. Used pronominally un {une) may, or may not, take the article = Un de mes amis, Vun de mes amis ; when contrasted with autre, both take the article : Vun est ici, Vautre là.