je le suis, * so I am' : lit. ' I am it

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1. 3. vous doutez de ce que, *you doubt (of, about) what'. Notice the genitive, and compare j''en doutais ' I doubted it ' with je m^en doutais * I suspected it '.

NOTES

1. 6. sois. Notice that the subjunctive is required by il n'est pas possible.

1. 9. fussiez-vous^ ^ even if you were 1. 10. un état^ ' a profession 1. 11. entre dans^ cf. p. 14, 1. 8.

1. 13. en est-il d'assez fortes^ ' are there any (circumstances) strong enough...?'

1.17. le plus rigide que... doive. Notice the subj. following fl^ j^/^rlative in a relative clause, doive, from devoir, 1. 21. fort jeune, * very young 1. 22. moins raisonnable, * not so steady

1. 25. Von. The definite article le is accounted for by on being in old French ofn, from the Latin ho7no.