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.v 3 démesurés de grandeur, ùm 4 inondée de cheveux blonds tout plats r. 5 elle était accroupie au milieu de la paille, thé I the midst of the 6 quelle s'appliquait à comprendre, that she WéU étui /,//;</. 7 cette partie-là, 8 un autre jeu, MMOtMtT A Page 31 — 1 c'étaient encore les bagues. the Note the rule of agreement oî e ; it - the plural only when reul rabjecfl il of third person plural :

: sont nos patents. Lut c'est nous, c'est ions. pè> e et «m WÛTê. 2. Ce sont d'assez eros diamants, n'estce pas. Ttiey are very large diamonds, are they notf Assez is not taken in the ordinary meaning of enough. being used rather for emphasis. 3 je n'ai pas voulu qu'elle s'en séparât. Let the

student be very careful about the corrélation of tenses. The imperfect subjunctive is used hère after the perfect of the indicative, and would hâve been required after any other past tense of the indicative, and after the conditional. 4. je l'ai toujours tirée d'affaire, / always managed to keep lier out of danger. 5. Elle avait une tenue assez soignée, she dressed and behaved very properly, 6. le mois Napoléon, the month of August. Napoléon was boni August 15, 1769. 7. j'étais tout à fait au courant de mon affaire, I got along very well.

Page 32. — 1. ça n'est jamais malade, they are never sick. 2 A la Bérésina. One of the most dreadful events in history : During Napoleon's. retreat from Moscow in 1812, the Grand Army attempted to cross the Beresina river. The Russians advancing before the crossing was accomplished, the bridge had to be blown up, and thousands of men, with a number of women and children, perished in the frozen river, or fell into the hands of the savage Cossacks. 3. nu-tête, ba?-eheaded. Nu, placed before the noun, is invariable, but, after the noun, it agrées with it in gender and number. 4. ne t'inquiète pas de nous, do not pay attentio7i to tes. 5. Je me sentis le cœur serré par ce baiser, that kiss ?nade me feel veyy sad. 6. Béthune. A town in the north western part of France {Département du Pas-de-Calais), Maximilien de Béthune, duke of Sully, the great minister of Henry IV., although he was born at Rpsny, derived his name from the town of Béthune. 7. En route, mauvaise troupe, Forward. Mauvaise troupe is a familiar expression, with a friendly and playful meaning attached to it. The nearest we could corne to it in English would be : Forward, you rogues ! 8. une sorte de lumière terne, a kindof dim light. 9. n'en pouvait plus, was worn out with fatigue, We say also : n'en pouvoir mais, the only expression with désormais in which mais has kept in modem French its original Latin meaning of magis, more. It now represents the Latin, sed, but. 10. qu'il n'était, than he was.

Page 33. — 1. il entama, hi began. 2. Massêna. One of the most famous of Napoleon's marshals. He saved France in

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Page 35. — 1. les Cent-Suisses, les Gardes-du-Corps, les Compagnies-Rouges, les Gendarmes du roi, les Mousquetaires. Names of the diîTerent old royal companies, and :

! which had been reorganized since the abdication of Napoléon in 1S14. The Mous are especi.dly know:.

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tait pour toujours que je les perdais, / was losing them forever. 3. une nature d'homme, a human type, literally, a species of tnan. 4. Or, durant quatorze années que j'ai vécu dans l'armée, Now, for fourteen years that I lived in the army. Vécu is invariable, as que is indirect object, pendant or durant being understood. 5. insouciants de la leur propre, careless about their own. 6. J'ignorai, / was ignorant; not, f ignored. 7. le pauvre diable, the poor fellow. 8. Il a été descendu, he was killed.

Page 36. — 1. Waterloo. The battle took place June 18, 1815. 2. une espèce de fille folle, a certain crazy girl. 3. Amiens, in ancien t Picardy (Département de la Somme), celebrated for the treaty of peace made by Napoléon with England in 1802. Peter the Hermit was born at Amiens. 4. furieuse, raving mad. 5. fin, cunning.