rien que ça, * nothing more or less J

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10. aller et retour, * there and back.' Cf. Donnez-moi un billet aller et retour pour . . . ' ' a retum ticket. '

32. commissions, * errands. ' Cf. in commercial travellers' French : J'ai pris une grosse commission ce matin, * I hâve taken a large order this morning.'

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2. il n^y demeure plus depuis, ' he has not been living there for the last. . . .' Note the change of tense in the two languages after depuis^ expressing continuity of time.

9. paiivreté n'est pas vice, ' poverty is no crime. ' Note the absence of the article in French in proverbs, maxims, generally.

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19. Bigre. Familiar and provincial. Trans. : *you don't mean that !

25. c'e-'it Vécorclter vif . . . 'it is like flaying him alive ; ' * if it could only be the death of him, '

28. il n'y en a aujourd'hui que ... * only scoundrels sucoaed now.- ^;days.'

nfi LE MILLION DU PERE RACLOT