Laissez-moi donc tranquille. Hère, ' don't mention it

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32. Ah! par exemple ! c'est trop fort ! * You don't mean that ! Well ! It is really too bad ! '

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3. Je tends mes deux oreilles, ' I am ail attention. ' 8. aux murs badigeonnés à la chaux, ' i^i^A white-washed walls.' Note the article of description instead of the English possessive adj. with with. Cf. in Lamartine 's Tailleur de Pierres, p. 1 : aux toits de tuiles rouges et aux murs blanchis à la chaux {i.e. with their red-tiled roofs and their white-washed walls). Cf. also in Les Misérables, vol. i. (School Edition) pp. 17-18, in the description of Jean Valjean : sur le dos . . ., à la main ; les pieds sans-bas ; la tête, etc., on his back, m his hand ; his feet, his head.