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Au pas de charge—At a quick step

avons manqué d'ensemble—We failed to act in concert.

134, Cornélia.—The personage that presents herself most naturally to the mind here is Cornelia, the Roman matron, daughter of Scipio Africanus and mother of the Gracchi. The authors may have had in their mind the fortitude of Cornelia, the wife of Pompey, as portrayed in Corneille’s tragedy, La 6» , ,; — % mpé PA

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136, Naï%fs—Artless. If the primitive sense of naïf is kept in mind it will scarcely ever be necessary to use the same wnrd in English. It is derived from the Latin nativus, and means primitively, native that is, that has come by birth, inborn, innate, natural.

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