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1. 14. je Vêtais, 'I was (so)', le, se. réveillé. 1. 29. dès hier, *as long ago as yesterday'.

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1. 4. voudî'iez-vous que f eusse? 'would you suppose that I had?'

1. 6. je vous le demande, *that's what I ask you\ Notice that demander requires ace. of thing, dat. of person. Cf. p. 31, 1. 13.

1. 13. quelque peine que cela me fasse, 'whatever pain it may give me'. ^2/^/^2/^=* whate ver', and is an indefinite adj,; que is the acc. of the relative pronoun ^2//, . and the object of the verb fasse, its antécédent being peine. Cf. p. 36, 1. i .

1. 19. il n'est pas.. .rien, *there cannot possibly be anything dishonourable'. For rien de déshonorant cf. the Latin nihil mali.

NOTES

1.21. bien plutôt^ *much rather...' Distinguish always between plutôt an adverb = *rather', and plus tôt the comparative of the adjective if^^=*sooner'.