de grand cœur, with the greatest pleasure

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3. elle ne saurait, she could not. The conditional of savoir is often used idiomatically for that of pouvoir, especially when it is intended to give a little more formai or polite turn to the sentence.

12. vous voilà tout désorienté, hein? you are quite disappointed, are you not? Orienter, désorienter, are words which it is sometimes diflQcult to render into English. The best way to get out of the diflSculty is to bear in mind the etymological meaning of orienter (fr. OWm^=East), which is ‘to find out where the East lies,* ‘to ascertain one*s position,’ ‘to find one’s way;* thence désorienter, ‘ to turn away from the East,* ‘ to go astray,* ‘ to lose one’s way,* and fig. ‘ to disconcert,* ‘ to puzzle,* ‘ to disappoint,* etc.