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10,—en me tuant de, #r#in my best to (taking great pains to). 13. sans nous dire un petit bonjour, without at last stopping to sus, to say how do vou do.” 14.— j'étais bien fondée, Z hui! good reason. 15.— qu'est-ce que. .tout cela? what does all that matter to R.2 | Note the pleonasm.

| 21. que veux-tu? 7 can't help it. The idea is ‘que veux-tu que je dise, puisqu'il en était ainsi Z | PAGE 4, line 4.— Dieu me pardonne, upon my word. It is hardly | necessary to remark that this and similar expressions into which the ‘une of Deity enters have a much weaker force than literal translation would convey. Cf. ‘Heavens,” ete., in English. 12 - manche à gigot, /ey-of-muütton sleere, ‘bhouffante prés de | épaule” | E 24. cela se trouvait aujourd’hui mercredi, /6-day happened to be Wednesday.

2s.--il y a huit jours, a week ago.

57.—relancer au gite, stir up in his “den.” Pace 5, line 5.—lui demander à diner, as£ a dinner of him. Gram., $S 279, 1, and 296, 4.

10, en. Gram.,$S 367. Prier requires «de.

15. n’auriez-vous pas, Z wonder if you have not. Conüitional of ’ njecture, Gram., $ 265, 5. - 17. -voi'à...que, for thirty years you have been, Gram., $ 257, 2. IS.—par voies et par chemins, on highwaus and by-ways. 21.— Dieu, que je..., Z declure, 1... Elliptical for je prends Dieu ‘moin que, or some similar phrase.