Propre à. Fit for

11. Ne s'était pas gênée pour croire. Jladfound little diffkuliy in believing. Gênée is p.p. of gêner, a derivative from gêne (Lat. ge- Jienna, a valley south of Jérusalem, where tUe Israélites used to sacrifice their childreu to Moloch. The Jews later ou looked upon this Valley as a place of eternal damnation, and in the New Testament this woid bas become the synibol of bell). — Gêner, wbicb originally meaut to torture (tbe seuse it still bad in tbe 17tb century), signifies uow simply to inconvenience, to embarrass.

13. A grand'peine à ce qu'il fît son droit. Unwilling that Tie sJiould study laïc. Faire son droit, literally, to mak« one's {study of) law. Droit (Lat. directum), in tbe sensé of justice, means the collection of the riiles governing society. Verbs expressing approval or dlsapproval and tbe like, wben foUowed by que (à ce que) and an objectclause specifjàug tbe object approved, etc., require after tliem tbe subjunctive.— Tbe adjective grand in grand'peine (Lat. grandie) bad originally tbe same terraination botb for masculine and féminine, because Latin adjectives in -is bave no féminine infiection. Tbe insertion of tbe apostrophe in sucli expressions as grand'chose, grand'mère is tberefore misleadiug : e is uot elided, for tbere never was an e.

14. Avait ménagé si bien les subsides. Had so carefully spared the money- supplies.