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Page 31 Une 3— A force de parler : By dint of words, by mere words.

31 9 — Malheureuse : Unhappy me !

31 18 — Et que de mes malheurs cette pitié vous dure :

And if your pity for my misfortune endure. Notice. — Leur amitié n’a guère duré, their friendship has not lasted long; Je veux une étoffe qui dure, I want a stuff that wears well : Le temps lui dure, time hangs heavy upon him. The use of que instead of si repeated ; some grammarians say that que may stand for a conjunction expressed in the preceding sentence, such as si, lorsque, comme, etc. ; others maintain that que cannot stand for any cther conjunction, and that there is an ellipsis which justifies the use of que, that : the former would consider que to be équivalent to si, the latter to et s'il arrivait que ; en supposant que . . .

31 20— Où mon âme prétend : To which I aspire (with

ail my soûl).