je passe condamnation, / admit that I was wrong

21. je vous ai laissé mettre ma maison ... à moi seul, Pve let you run my home on a scale which I canH keep up aUby mysélf,

28. Allez, SuUy! . . . Turgot! Go on, SvUy! . . . Turgot! Sully was minister of finance under Henry IV; Turgot was minister of marine and controUer-general of finances under Louis XVI.

53. — 6. Aussi ne vous consulté-je pas, Therefore I am not con^ suUing you. In French there cannot be two mute e^a in succession at the end of a word; hence é (pronoimced è).

16. c'est tout voïf H^s aUihe same. Compare the English "it's ail one."

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