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vous ne vous repentirez pas du, You will not

regret tlic . . . Tlie différence betwceu regretter and se repentir de is more perceptible in French tlian in English, and is best seen by the etymology of the two verbs, the niind rather than the heart being aflected by a regret, and the lieart rather than the mind by repentance. Note also that 'to repent' is always reilexive in French, like se souvenir de, etc.

21. 31. il faut que j'aille faire part à mon père, I niust go

and hît niy father know. Note : faire part de = communiquer, informer ; and cf. Un billet de faire part, a circular note announcing a birth, niarriage, or death ( ' cards ' are uot generally used for this purpose).

32. à mon égard, towards me. Cf. prépositive phrase à l'égard de = with regard to ; note that égard is not used in the singular as subject of a verb, but only in the plural, and that regard only means look, glauce.

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