Suis-je assez puni ! — See note

202. Il ne s'agissait plus que. — The only question now was. Idiomatic.

203. On l'aurait repassé avec un fer chaud. — They would hâve gone over him with a hot iron. Literally: " Ironed " him.

This unusual method of restoring warmth should probably be performed after first covering the body "with a cloth.

20L Sans vous, je perdais mon père. — Had it not been for you, I should hâve lost my father : or, If it had not been for you, I had lost my father.

The use of the inrperfect is hère more forcible than that of the conditional.

205. Me vaudrait la grâce de mon père. — Would secure me my father's pardon.