dans mes habitudes, a habit of mine

p. 16—22.] NOTES 20I

Pagre 16. — I. le soit, {skall) be so.

2. grand'peine, the apostrophe after grand was inserted in this and similar expressions to dénote the loss of the féminine ending e, which was erroneously supposed to hâve existed in the older language. Latin adjectives of two endings became in Old Freach adjectives of one ending. Later on, after the analogy of féminine adjectives that originally had an e, as bonne, grand and other adjectives of the same class took on an e. In many cases, however, the original form without an e lived on, as grand^peine, grand* mère.