I. il y revient : cf. note, p

3. grand' peur : so grand' chose, grand" faim, grand' soif, grancTrue, etc. Thèse expressions are remnants of Old French, in which adjectives derived from Latin adjectives with two terniinations only had no distinct termination for the féminine. The apostrophe was added towards the end of the sixteenth century by grammarians, who imagined that an e had been left out.

5. je le laissai arranger ma couverture, ' I let him turn down niy bed.'