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j'aurai renoncé, use the perfect tense in English

Page 53* — i. madrigal, technically a poem of a few lines, embodying a delicate compliment.

2. sommations, an allusion to the fact that according to French law, a mob must be summoned three times to disperse before armed force can be employed: / have read the riot act.

Page 55* — i. Voilà une sortie, as a piece of impertinence, that's not a bad way of leaving,

2. je ne tenais plus en place, / couldn't keep stUl any longer.

Page 67. — i. autres, not to be translated; the word is usually added to nous and vous to make a more emphatic distinction between two classes of persons.

Page 58. — i. allez . . . visite, keep on^ I have the right of search.

Page 62. — i. se sont parlé; se has the reciprocal meaning with all three verbs here.

Page 67 • — i^ s'il épousera, not a condition, but an emphatic assertion, like our 'will he!*, emphasizing the 'will.' Cf. page 12, note I.

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