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je suis à eux, PU he with them; PU he there

28. la main droite doit ignorer, etc., the right hand must not know what the left hand is giving. Compare the Bible (Matthew, vi. 3-4) : "But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret."

34. — 4. Comme il y val How gênerons he is! lit., "How he goes there!"

7. l'obole dtt brigadier, the corporcXs mite, an alhision to the widow's mite in the Bible (Mark, xii. 42). The ohole was an old French coin of veiy small value.

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