à rendre, ' to describe

3. est-ce 4ue par hasard... est-ce qne ce garçon serait, * can it be perhaps. ..can this boy be....'

9. Je vons prends à témoin... de la grandeur, ' I call you to beat witness...to the greatness.'

16. desVarennes, 'of theVarennesfamily.' Hère the family name is indéclinable. Eve § 26.

18. c'est Jouer de malheur, 'an unlucky chance l' literally, 'it is playing with ill-luck,' used of a gambler. De malheur is an adverb of manuer formed by a noun in the genitive, Eve § 137.

19. De malheur 1 ' unlucky I ' II. se ravisant, ' reflecting.'

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6. tout à son enivrement, ' intoxicated by his émotion,' literally, ' ail given up to his intoxication.' The dative hère is that of the possessor, Eve § 148.

ir. Jusqu'à ce qu'une femme y réponde. Réponde is in the subjunctivâi because the answer is the resuit of the action of calling implied in the principal sentence. Eve § 264 a,