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Page 61. — I. à la bonne heure, hère: I am glad you see this.

2. en venant la prendre, when I shall call for you (la = sa Majesté).

3. . . . nous voilà bien, être bien, "to be at one's ease"; hère ironical, now we are in a nice fix.

Page 62. — i. ... il y va de notre salut à tous, the matterit of the greatest importance for us ail.

2. à la bonne heure. The meaning of this phrase happens to suggest itself hère from the very words: bonne heure, as though th»

speaker meant that the occasion were favorable. Nevertheless, tho colloquial meaning is so broad and gênerai that it will net do to analyie the phrase. Trans. That is quiU a surprise! Cf. previous cases of its use; page 34, note 4; page 57, note i.

Pas* M. — I. a rapport, is in ref trente to.

2. que d'oser, lo Jare. This is the subject of the sentence, pointed out and emphasized by the qut which, in such positions, cannot be translated.

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