enfin, *just
31. avant qu'il eût pu. We might expect pût^ not eât pu; bat the sensé is *before he could hâve barred the door, if he had wanted to do so.' The attempt even was not made. For <sv<ifU qtu^ see Eve § «64.
donna passasse à, *let in.'
39. valets de meute, 'huntsmen,' or 'whippers-in/ in charge of the pack {meu/e).
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