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91 8 — Seuls, et qui semblaient tout bas se quereller;
équivalent to "seuls, et semblant": Alone, and looking as if they were quarrelling in a low tone of voice (whispering angry words to each other).
91 9 — Ils sont aux mains : They are fighting. • 91 10— Pardonnez à cette promptitude s Forgive my haste (in parting from you).
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•I 15— Alafois : At the same time. Notice.— Fois, Provençal,/^; ltal.,vece; Lat., vice, Khasbeen ebanged mto / as in firevis, bref, short ; cenms, cerf, stag ; clavist clef, key ; nervus, nerf, nerve ;
mtvis, nef, nave, &c. The Lat. i has becoxne ai, as in minus, moins, less ; pUus, poil, hair ; sU (esse), soit, &c. The lat c has becomei.* mucere, moisir, to be mouldy ; racemus, raisin, grapes ; victnus, voisin, &c.
Jlgf 22 8m I— Chez moi : In me, in my heart Notice. — Ches moi, at my house ; Chez nous, at . home ; Je viens de chez Pierre, de casa Pétri, I corne from Peter's house ; On trouve chez cet auteur, one findsinthat author; C'est une habitude ches lui, it is a habit with him. Chez, Lat. casa, house.
22 2 — Pompeuse et triomphante elle me fait la loi s Proud and triomphant )X lords it over me ; it dictâtes tome.
22 7— Vous laissez choir: You let your noble courage yield. Choir, to fall; Old French, chérir; originally chaer ând coder, 'from Lat. cadere, Derivatives : Echoir, to fall due ; déchoir, to fall from, décline ; chute, fall ; rechute, relapse.
22 8 — Perd ainsi son usage : Thus becomes useless, powerless.
22 17 — Une fois (once) has hère the sensé of seulement, only ; if but Rodrigo corne off victorious.
22 18 — Ce grand guerrier: The Count, the adversary of Rodrigo.
22 19— Je puis en faire cas : I can show my esteem for him. Notice. — Personne ne fait cas de lui, he is slighted by everyone ; On ne fait pas grand cas de ce qu'il dit, one makes no account of what he says ; Il ne fait cas que de l'argent, he regards nothing but money.
22 27— Journées : Hère battles. A la journée de Nordlingue, the battle of Nordlingen ; Dans cette terrible journée, in this terrible battle.
22 33 — Où vous portez son bras : Literally, you carry his
arm ; how far you spread his exploits.
23 1 — Ensuite de : In conséquence of.
23 3— En faut-il davantage/ What more is necessary, is not that enongh? Notice. — Davantage refers to something that cornes before, plus to what cornes after ; Cet enfant est intelligent, son frère l'est davantage ; Cet enfant est plus intelligent que son frère.
*3 S— Cabinet 1 Room, private apartment. An Italiaa importation of the sixteenth century gabinetto. Notice.— Cabinet de travail, a study ; Cabinet
de toilette, a dressing-room. Set Hachette's " Comparative Idioms," French part, phrase 100 and nS.
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Pa*e 23 Km 12 — De votre part : In your naine.
23 13— J'ai fait mon pouvoir : I did what I conld. Pouvoir, the infinitive, is nsed hère as a sub« stantive. J'ai fait ce que j'ai pu, j'ai fait mon possible, are synonymous and more usual expressions ; in the latter an adj. is used as a subst.
23 24— Puisqu'il en abuse s Since he abuses my leniency. En represents not a word, but the idea, traiter sans violence. Notice that the French abuser never means to insuit
23 25— Assurez vous de lui : Apprehend him.
23 27 — Tout bouillant encor de sa querelle : Straight
from his quarrel, boiling over with wrath.
24 7— De grâce: lentreatyou.
24 12 — Qui s'expliquent: Which can be uttered, expressed, made. The antécédent of qui is submissions, apologies.
24 16— Son bras nourri dans les alarmes : His arm trained to the périls of war; nursed amid war's alarums. Corneille, La Fontaine, &&, hâve used the substantive nourriture for éducation. Nourriture passe nature is a proverb which means éducation can alter naturel dispositions. Alarmes, in poetry, is taken for war, particularly the dangers of war; it came in the sixteenth century from the Italian military tenu al forme, which means "aux armes/' to arms; it was often spelt allarme in the seventeenth century.
24 17— A la pointe des armes : At the sword's point, in lawful fight.
24 18— Il satisfera : He will give satisfaction. This verb is seldom used absolutely as it is hère.
Notice. — Satisfaire aux questions, to answer questions ; Satisfaire à la conscription, to draw for the army.
84 19— Attendant qu'il l'ait su, voici qui répondras Until he is apprised of it (that you aîlow him to give satisfaction by a duel), hère am I to answer for him. Voici for "vois ci," "vois ici," see bere (one who will answer for him).
Pag* 2$Un€2Q— L'âge: Hereyouth. It U used more frequently in the sensé of old âge. Un homme d'un certain âge, an oldish man.. Çy.—
: She ml not old» noryoong, nor at the yean
' Which certain peQple caU a "certain âge/'
Which yet the most uncertain âge appears.
— Byron, '* Beppo.*
84 22— À de meilleurs objets : Has better things in view (than snch auarrels).
24 23— Est meilleur ménager du : Is more sparing of.
24 24— Mes soucis les conservent, Comme ie chef » soin des membres qui le servent : My jealous care protects them, as the head cares for the limbs, tfs servants. Chef, Lat caput y isscarcely used now otherwise than in the sensé of chief, principal, head man. Notice. — Sermon divisé .. T en trois chefs, sermon divided into three parts ; Chef-d'œuvre, masterpiece; chef-lieu, chief ' town.
24 30—11 a perdu d'honneur : He has dishonourecL Notice. — Perdre de réputation, To take away anyone's character ; perdre hère has the sensé of priver; hence perdre de, as priver de.
24 32 — S'attaquer à mon choix «... : To impugn myown
choice is to challenge me.
