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à voisiner, in visiting each other

1 5. dest un monstre que cet homme. Note this idiomatic

form, much more emphatic than the ordinary grammatical construction: cet homme est un monstre', it somewhat corresponds to the popular English, ‘thatman is . . ., he is,’ but without having in it anything of the familiarity of the English expression.

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