assez causé, ' there's enough talking

19. Oran. Oran is a port in Algiers, the chief town of a province of the same name.

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15. Bans... trompette, *on the quiet,' lit. 'without sound of drum or trumpet.' This phrase is commonly used of a hasty departure; so La Fontaine, Fables iv. 22, says of the young larks, when they heard that the farmer was himself coming to eut the corn, that they 'scuttled off,' Les petits délogèrent tous sans trompettes.

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lo. n aura reconnu, 'he musL hâve recognised.' The future perfect is often used in French to express a supposition about a past event; il lui aura tout dit, *he has probably told him everything.'