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bien diflacile, very hard to please. (Cf. the Latin

difficilis ^rrecibus (Ovid), and difficilis mane (Horace), and the French facile = traetable, kind, etc. ; also the idiom se faire à . . . = to get used to . . . )

22. Allons ! va pour la sympathie, TVell ! I will suppose it is sjinpathy. The idiomatic use of the imperative of aller in conversation is generally indicative of a change of subject or of an adhésion to what has been said ; it is then an interjection. Cf. ' Va, je ne te hais point ' (Corneille, Cid, iii. 4).

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