je le tiens pour bon, * I hold it good SCÈNE VIL

1. 10. un faux seing, 'a false signature', *a forgery'; pronounce as if spelled sin.

1. 14. son futur, se. époux, *her intended'. 1. 18. au futur, 'to the bridegroom'.

1. 24. quel {quelle) is an interrogative adjedive. The real construction is son embarras est quel {embarras) ? Cf. p. 25, 1. 4. 1. 25. c^est de vous laisser, ' it is at leaving you

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1. 8. tendent. Notice the use of the présent tense in French (where our idiom in English is to use the perfect), because the action is still continuing at the moment in question. So *How long have you been here?' is Combien de temps êtes vous ici?

1. 9. ne perds jamais de vue. Never forget, lit. never lose from view (the fact) that... Notice the idiom.

1. 10. des père et m^re, 'of fathers and mothers'. Notice that there is no s in père and mère because it is a compound noun in which the idea rather than the word is made plural.