quitte à... après, ' and defer explanations till later

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I. et... habitudes, * did not know that he had the habits.' For the relative and conjunction see note on p. 3, 1. 17.

15. lui... aise, *let him hâve as much of it as he liked,' ' it ' being probably * sleep,' but perhaps ' bed.'

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21. que... impunie, * that vvas the resuit of her failure to punish his fault,' lit. ' of his fault vvhich was unpunished. ' In French an adjective and more particularly a past participle can be used, as hère, almost predicatively, but in English it is net possible to produce the effect of emphasis without recasting the sentence: sa vengeance manquée^ ' the loss of his revenge.'