Soudain. See note to p

L 4 Leur fit découvrir, ' made them discover. ' When^/œire is followed by a transitive verb its owti object is indirect.

1. 5. Qui leur avait échappé, • which had escaped them." Note the rendering of the English obj. ' them ' by the indirect obj. in French. The verb in French is neut., échapper à ; hence this form.

Page 22, lines 2, 3. Une sorte de couteau, ' a sort of a knife.' Obsei'\'e that the English article after so7^te is not rendered in French-

L 3. Vérification faite, ' on investigation. ' A sort of an absolute construction. Cf. p. 18, L 1.

L 6. Ce qui devait surprendre, ' what must bave surj^rised (them). '