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That man thinks he is ilL 4. They hâve long beards

5. I thought he looked ill, and I said so. 6. They forgot to send the count word.

Page 166. — 1. We went to see him early in the morning. 2. He got up immediately. 3. He went out without having thought about it 4 We prêter to send word that we are ill. 5. He said he was ill, partly to keep up the story, partly because he believed he was. 6. It is ail over with ma

Page 167. — 1. He was nearly dying. 2. He did that quite unreasonably.

Page 169.-1. My fingers relaxed so that my book slipped from me -without my noticing it 2. We had just received a visit 3. I called up the soûls of those he had sent into the other world. 4 Medicine has made great progress since Hippocrates. 5. He died in his bed.

Page 170. — -1. Ail I can say is that he was my friend. 2. Think of it. 3. However that may be, I fell into a deep sleep. 4 Tho persons about whom I had been thinking remained in ray memory. 5. We saw them sit down.

Page 171. — 1. If thèse discoveries had been as useful to medicino as you claim, not so many would hâve died. 2. Hâve you heard of thèse things ? 3. The discoveries which refer to medicine are numerous. 4. Are we ignorant of what you hâve just told us ?

Page 172. — 1. Men strive in vain to reach the secrets of natura 2. He addressed me. 3. I hâve rid myself of ail clannishnoss. 4. The labors of men hâve not been able to lengthen lifo by a single instant. 5. We cannot silence truth. 6. We admitted that we had always suspected it.

Page 173. — 1. They put to death on the scaffold men, women, and children. 2. He was listoning to our conversation without saying anything. 3. It is not the same thing with respect to politics. 4. The invention of printing bas spread knowledge even among the common peopla

Page 174. — 1. Absurdities are so inhérent in our nature that they follow us boyond the tomb. 2. I took a peculiar pleasure in seeing my friend renounce ail his old ideas. 3. She turns over the leavos of the nowspaper.

Page 177. — 1. Thèse head-dresses are very ridiculous. 2. We could not help manifesting great astonishment. 3. We pretended not to notice it. 4. The virtue of the woman of today is greater than that of my contemporaries.

Page 178. — 1. His wig has escaped burning. 2. My dog jumped lightly into my arms. 3. She drove the spirits back to Hades. 4. The Being benevolent above ail others has given imagination to men to console them- 5. We must leave you. 6. I bave been forbidden to go out 7, I shall do nothing which is not measured by duty.

Page 179.— 1. Why did they not let me finish it? 2. He never saw more clearly that he was doubla 3. Solitude resembles death. 4. There is that mansion which I know so weU!

PQ Sardou, Victorien

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