elle se mit en prières, ' she engaged in prayer

12. à la Jeune paysanne. The dative hère dépends on substitution and not on étranger,

15. au nécessaire, the dative after a verb of taking away expresses the person or thing from which anything is taken. See Eve § 145.

16. ne flBdsait Jamais aumône que de ce qui lui serait revenu à elle-même, ' never gave away as alms anything but her own portion.'

27, 30. disait, secouait, répondait. The imperfect hère im-

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plies that the remarks were habituai, not made once merely. See Eve § 172.

33. Benoist de Tonl, a young man of Toul who wished to marry Jeanne, and even, it seems, wished to enforce by law a promise of marriage which he said she had given. However, he was unable to prove his case.

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I. nous ne poovoiui rien anx afOiires, ' we hâve no influence on the afTairs.' The dative hère is used after a verb implying coopération.

Eve S 147(1).

I I. Maine, a river flowing north through the east of Champagne.

la. quand yoqb rencontrerei, * when you come upon.' The action is to take place in future time, hence the verb is in the future. Eve

14. À ces mots, * with thèse words.' The préposition à is used to

mark some signal, or some event fixing the time of an action. See Eve § 153.

15. trois deniers. The livre, originally a pound of silver, but gradually depreciated to the présent ^tf«^, was divided into twenty sous, and each sou into four liards or twelve deniers, Thus, even allowing for the higher value of silver then, the three deniers would be worth very little.