elle^ se. la lettre

1. 26. qu' est-il, The servant answers as if M. Vanderk had said qui est-il^ * who is?' instead of ' what is?' 1. 29. f entends^ ' I know '.

1. 30. il fC y a pas longtemps.., suis, 'I haven't been long with him', lit. *there is not long that I belong to him'. suis, présent tense again as above, 1. 15, and p. 12, 1. 8, because he still at the moment of speaking is M. Vanderk's servant.

1. 31. il a servi. As we say, ' he has been in the service meaning the Army or Navy.

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1. 2. c*est un officier, Cest (not il est) must be used before a noun with the article.

1. 5. f attends. Notice the présent tense where the English idiom is to use the future.

1. 11. du côte du, 'away towards', lit. *by the side of the...'