Tu crois ? ♦ Do you think so

g. Tu en... chose ! * You might hâve another, and it would be just the same thing ! ' The conditional mood is commonly used in concessive sentences after * even if, although, &c.' thus : *sz le dernier des Bourbons était tîié, la France n^en aurait pas moins un roi^ * Even if the last of the B. were killed, France would none the less hâve a king.' It is not at ail uncommon in French to express this idea by two sentences joined by the conjunction çue, thus : Le dernier des B. serait tuéy que la France n^en aurait pas moins un roi, where the sentence which logically is the principal one la France... roi is put grammatically as the subordinate sensé. English might represent this form of French by two parallel co-ordinate sentences, ' the last of the B. might be killed, and yet France would hâve a king.'

23. Elle... compte. • She was certain that she could tell him ' ; at this point the narrative passes into 'indirect speech,' reporting Lise's words.

24. débarrassait.. .voisinage, * if she were not relieved from association with such a créature,' lit. ' from such a neighbourhood,' where, as often, French uses the abstract, while English idiom prefers the concrète * neighbour.'

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5. circonstances atténuantes. In France if to a verdict of 'guilty ' a jury appends * under extenuating circumstances,' a much less heavy penalty is imposed upon the guilty person than if no such addition has been made. Thus obtenir des circonstances atténuantes is a shortened form meaning *to get a verdict of guilty, but under extenuating circumstances.' The addition is very commonly made by a French jury, and is about équivalent to the ' recommendation to mercy ' of the English jury.

1 7. Si tu peux dire, • ho w can you speak so ? '

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6. tu feras... voudras de, 'you will always do what you like with.' In French where the principal werh feras is in the future tense, the subordinate verb voudras is also put in the future, while English more often has the présent tense in the relative sentence.

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7. ne se renouvellerait plus, 'should not occur again.' The conditional tense hère represents in reported speech Jean's i)romise ' it shall not,' not a statement * it will not.'

8. donnait, 'he promised her that...' The imperfect tense is used hère because Pigault's words are reported; ^ je te donne,'' 'I promise you,' becomes in reported speech ' il lui donnait,^ * he promised her.'

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3, ne s'en... long, * did not go so far as to say ail this to himself.'