Un bon parti. A good match

4. — 1. Trop difficile et portée. Too fastidious and too incUned.

4. On ne s'expliquait pas . . . elle eût refusé. They could not comprehend . . . she should hâve refused. A great variety of verbs, such as dénote perception by the seuses, are followed by que and an object-clavise wbose verb is usually in the indicative when the principal verb is affirmative, and usually in the subjunciive, when the principal verb is négative, interrogative, or conditional in form.

7. Qui eussent désiré la prendre en pension et la produire dans le monde. Who would hâve been glad to take her as a boarder and to introduce her into socicty. The pluperfect subjunctive is frequently used as the conclusion of a condition implied or expressed. — Eût in the ne.\t Une expresses that which is possible or even probable, and fût in iine 15 is a subjunctive. The subjunctive is always used after compoiuid iudelinite adverbs, such as si . . . que, "however."

13. Des fonctionnaires très-bien. Oovernment officiais everyiohere received.

14. Enfin un personnel convenable. In short, a suitable number of marriageable inen.

24. A laquelle il faut rapporter ce simple fait. To which this simple story relates.

25. De mémoire d'homme, il ne s'y était passé. In the memoi'y of man, there had nol taken place there.

26. Mœurs douces. Gentle habits. (Lat. viores, plural of mos.) The final s is pronounced in this word.