Pourvu que. See note to p

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18. vous-même vous l'avez dit. An emphatic personal pronoun cannot, as a rule, stand alone as subject or direct object to a verb. Another pronoun must be supplied. How would you translate : ' Know thyself.' ' I spoke to herself.'

21. s'intéressât. Dépendent statenients introduced by a négative verb govern the subjiuictive, cf. Lat. Xemo est qui audeat.

28. droit de four. Serfs coiild not grind their corn, bake their bread, press their apples or their grapes, sharpen their kuives or tools, unless it were at the only mill, oven, press, or grind-stone on the estate, and belouging, of course, to the lord. For the use of thèse they had to pay certain duties, which went to increase the lord's income, and were called droits de banalité, the mill, oven, etc., being termed moulin banal, four banal, etc. The adjective banal meant ' common to ail,' and in certain parts of France and Svvitzerland many places hired to the public (such as hotel-stables, public weights, etc.) are still called écurie banale, poids banal, etc. The^nodern meauing of the word is ' vulgar.'

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4. Quant au. Note the différent spelling of quand, ' when,' and quant à, ' as for.' sans qu'on ait. See note to p. 6, 1. 13.

9. ce démon de rougeot. Cf. Un fripon d'enfant, ' a rascal of a child.' There are three adjectival suffixes corresponding to English -ish : rourjezXTe, rougeot, and ro«(/eaud. The last two are always depreciative. -dire is also depreciative {marâtre, acariâtre, etc.), but not in adjectives of colour.

25. à ce que tout soit. The whole expression à ce que may be regarded as a single conjnnction (cf. parce que -par ce que). Dépendent commands take a subjuuctive.

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5. il le descendit. The verbs descendre and monter may be used eitlier trausitively or intransitivelj'.

9. avait à peine quelques pieds. Is there not another way of expressing dimeusiou? Reconstruct this sentence, using être instead of avoir.

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7. que pouvait, etc. Mind the inversion. 28. mors quas libérât, etc., 'death that delivers is held as freedom.'

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16. Aussi n'en suis-je point. After aussi, 'therefore ' ; à peine, 'hardly ' ; peut-être, ' perhaps,' etc., inversion is generally used. Cf. A peine le génércd fut-il tombé..., ' Scarcely had the gênerai fallen ... .'

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14. nul doute que ... ne lui fit. For au explanation of qu^ ...ne and a subjunctive after verbs of doubt, we must refer to Latin syntax. Que ... ne = Jja.tm quin. Cf.:

Non duhito quin iniquus sis, \'I do not doubt that

Je ne doute pas que vous ne soyez injuste, j you are unjust.'

Haud midtum àbfuit quin interficerettir (Livy), I nairowly

Il s'en fallut de peu qu'il ne fût tué. f ^scaped ^bemg

24. Veuillez, imperative of vouloir, is used as a polit e form of command. Cf. Veuillez-vous asseoir, 'Pray, sitdown.'

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