A elles douze, Between the twelve of them

42. 17. j'ai dû prendre, I had to take. (Mark the idiomatic use of

the verb devoir.)

21. qui vient enlever les laines le lendemain de la tonte, who

comes to buy the wool the day after the sheep are sheared. 24. car je le fais parquer souvent, I often hava the flock penned up.

30. j'ai fait agrandir les ouvertures, I hâve had the openings

made larger.

43. 15. Quoi qu'il arrive, Whatever happens. (Notice Subjunctive

after quoi que. . . .) 18. j'ai placé, I hâve invested.

21. il ignore l'usage que j'en veux faire, he does not know what

I mean to do with it.

NOTBS M

rAOk Ltmi

49L tt» B« pot rttoair mi lamiM, conid not conUin his tears.

(Nolieo ihat. allhough nogativc, ;>»!/ isnot followed by jxu.

With that vorb iho /km is oflcn more elegantly omittcd.)

96. poiiqa* tu Tiens de parler de nmriâir«> since yoa havc ju8t spokon of marryinK.

44. 8. ta n'aa pas encore trente deux ans, you are not yet thirtytwo.

5. Vikgt ne fklt rien à cela. Age has nothing to do with that.

ridée n'y est pas, the mind is not thcre. 9. Après cela, que me faut-Il pour être heureux 7 What more

than that do I need to be happy ?

10. Qat Teux-tu T WTiat shall I say ? or, What will yon ? (An

entirely French exclamation.) IS. Uen portantes, in good health.

15. les abattre à grands coups de faux, eut them down hastily. 31. le Jour même, on that very day.

28. de cinquante couverts, given to fifty guests: lit. of fifty

covers.

84. avaient été conviés à ce festin, had been invited to that feast.

S8. gr&oe à, . . . thanks to. . . .

45u 11. Un placement à faire, Some money to invest.