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pour nous, ' toward us

nous aurons été... qui auront pardonné. The future perfeet is used hère, because the acts spoken of, though themselves taking place in the future, will be past, when certain other future events take place. The sentence means * God will be to us what we (by the time of His judgment) shall hâve been to others.

2 1. mis à l'amende, ' fined. '

firauder, 'évade.'

le droit de four. The lord of the manor, in France, possessed the village oven, where ail his serfs had to bake their bread, and pay him for the use of the oven.

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