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ï. se retint à quatre, 'restrained herself with great difficulty.' Tenir à quatre is * to hold with difficulty, to hold as well as four people would do.'

\i. corps de délit, corpus delicti. English uses the technical légal term, which nieans literally 'substance with which the offence is connected.'

i\. méritait de l'être, 'deserved hatred,' lit. *deserved to be it, ùe. so abhorred.' The 'pleonastic' use of the neutral le is often represented in English by 'so,' or altogether omitted.