l’air. ‘ En ’ is hardly ever found before a noun

Page. Lîhe.

NOTES

preceded by the article except when theie is élision of the e or a, of le or la. Hence it is quite exceptional to meet : en la 'présence^ en la chambre du conseil ; but it is not rare to meet with : en V absence, en Vhonneur, or^ as here, en Vair.

35. 14. — On dirait. ‘ One would think.’ df. 27, 8i 17- — Que je monte==qA/î que je monte.

26. — Accourus à sa voix. ‘ Accourir ’ differs from courir in meanin^ to hasten to a place where something attracts us or calls us. Hence we say : Il est accouru au bruit, à son secours. Render here, ‘ liastened to her in answer to ber call.’