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15 3— C'en est fait : It is done. But, since the blow it

struck, there's no help for it.

15 4 — Qu'aux volontés du roi, etc. : Let your proud

spirit bend to the king's will ; he takes this much to heart, etc.

15 7 — Aussi. The complète adverbial locution is aussi bien, the fact is that, and besides, indeed. Aussi means also : vous aussi ; before an adjective or an adverb it is synonymous with autant or tellement : aussi populaire, as or so popular ; when a conjunction it means " c'est pourquoi": Il me priait de t* écrire, aussi le fais* je, he begged me to write to you, therefore I do it. Aussi is now employed only in an affirmative sensé ; the négative corresponding to it is non plus : I also dislike it, je ne l'aime pat non plus.

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ni passent call for more than common réparation.

15 II — A son gré : At his pleasure, if he wilL Gré, Provençal grat; Ital., grato; Lat., graiurru There are nnmerotis examples of atum changed into é: pratum, pré, meadow ; curatum, curé»

one who holds a cure; peccatum, péché, sin, &c

*5 l 5 — Pour œiiserver tout ce que j'ai d'estime: To préserve my famé unsullied.

15 18 — Pour le faire abolir : To cause it to be remittecL The king alone can abolish a crime — that is, pardon the guilty person, and remit the punish-

16 5 — D'un sceptre qui • • • The Count interrupts Don Arias, continuing the latter's sentence according to his own mind: Le pouvoir souverain d'un sceptre qui.

16 8— Remettre : Literally, to put back ; hère, to bring back; let reason bring your sensés back. Notice. — L'usage du lait est ce qui l'a remis, a milk-diet recovered him. Remettez-vous, de grâce, for heaven's sake compose yourself.

Ne vous remettez- vous pas son visage ? don't you know his face again?

16 ia— Du tout: At ail. Ne ... du tout, not at ail, never. Notice. — Que pensez-vous du tout, what do you think of the whole ? Il ne pense point du tout, he never thinks.

16 14— Le sort en est jeté : The die is cast. Notice. — Most words ending in ri join the r to the following vowel in pronunciation (not the /) |* le sor(t) en est jeté " ; fort, meaning " very,' is an exception : il est fort aimable (for-taimable).

16 16 — Avec : Hère notwithstanding, in spite of, for ail your laurels. La foudre, the thunderbolt ; used metaphorically for the king's anger. Laurels were supposed to préserve from lightning (foudre, Lat. julgurem). Notice. — Foudre, s.m. t un foudre de guerre, a thunder-bolt of war, a great captain, a hero.

l6 18— Non pas sans effet : Certainly not without effect. Notice. — Pas used hère to strengthen the négative, as with ne.

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