à peine dégrossi, scarcely roughed down

n s'agissait de rapprocher, The question was to diminish. 10. 5. il faut que Je m'élève assex haut, I must rise high enough (Subjunctive Mood after Impersonal Verb). 8. Depuis deux ans, il était devenu, Two years since he had become. (Notice the idiom : Depuis deux ans. Mark also that the verb détenir forras its compound tenses with itrt instead of ' to hâve ' of the English.) 13. m avait voulu voir, they had wished to see.

n s*empres8a de saisir, He eagerly seized. 15. Depuis un au il l'aimait, He had been in love with her a year.

(Pay attention also to this idiora.) 17. à se mettre en garde, to guard himself.

qui devait lui faire éprouver une g^'ande déception, which was to make him meet with a great déception. 27. s'ils eussent soupçonné, if they had snspected. (Notice the second forra of the French Conditional Past, used hère instead of the Pluperfect Indicative, which, in fact, could replace it: ê'iU avaient soupçonné.

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