LA VIEILLE MAISON

Page 14. — 1. Quelle vieille maison, what an old house! Note omission of article. — 2. Elle avait presque trois cents ans, it was nearly 300 years old; lit., it had almost 300 years [of age); comp. 1, note 10. — - 3. s'avançait, projected; reflexive for Eng. intrans. — 4. devait s'écouler, should have flowed. — 5. Supply one in translating. — 6. aux; comp. 2, note 21. — 7. tant, asweli; à, by. — 8. la; comp. 1, note 2. — 9. tous les matins, every morning. — 10. de la tête; comp. 1, notes 2 and 7. — 11. y, to it. — 12. se, to each other ; comp. 3, note 10. Note also that parlé is here not plural. — 13. soit, subjunctive in clause used as the logical subject of an impersonal verb. — 14. pour que, in order that ; lit., for that. — 15. rendre, make ; pay. Note omission of article. — 16. peu, little; trans., not very. — 17. du; comp. 3, note 34. — 18. Comp. 2, note 25. — 19. plaindre; comp. entendre, 2, note 52. — 20. sur, from ; lit., [from) on. — 21. comme il n'y en a plus, such as exist no loitger ; comp. 1, notes 20 and 31. — 22. corporations, c 0 mpanies of tradesmen or artisans. — 23. la vie de famille, family life ; de without article frequently equals Eng. adj. or noun used as adj. —

24. un si charmant, so charming a, such a charming ; note the order. —

25. ne sait pas, knows not how to, cannot. — 26. il se passe . . . de l'arbre de Noël, he does without a Christmas-tree. — 27. je me plais, I please myself I like it. — 28. il faut que tu t'y fasses, you must accustom yourself to it ; on fasses, comp. 2, note 43. — 29. chez lui, home. — 30. Je n'en peux plus, I can stand it no longer ; lit, / can (do) no more of it. — 31. Je sais . . . pensées. I know now what a visit of the old thoughts is. For ce que, comp. 2, note 36; the second que is connective, and is not translated.—32. Comp. 1, notes 4 and 22.-33. se porte, is ; lit., bears herself For the order see i,note 32.-34. Fais-toi ; comp. note 28, above. — 35. En, to. — 36. se, for himself ". — 37, en ; trans, with escalier, and comp. 1, note 20.

— 38. devait être, was to be. — 39. mise en vente, put in sale, offered for sale. — 40. emporter; comp. 2, note 52, and observe that the passive is much more frequent in Eng. than in French. — 41. planter; the infin. is often best translated by the Eng. près. part. — 42. de, idiomatic ; omit in Eng.

— 43. lui, her; comp. 3, note 24. — 44. Rien autre chose, nothing else ; lit., no other thing. — 45. par s'enfoncer, by burying himself; comp. sans, 2, note 42. — 46. Que je le voie un peu, let me look at it a little. — 47. pour lui tenir compagnie, in order to keep him company. — 48. moi, disjunctive pron. in emphatic position ; omit in Eng. — 49. Mieux vaut, it is better ; lit., it is belter worth. The subject is être.

Page 20. — 1. Il y avait ; see 1, note 31. — 2. du, in the. — 3. des ; the article is required by the superlative. — 4. Comp. 2, note 45. — 5. Que c'est beau! how beautiful that is! — 6. avaient . . . rossignol, had heard the nightingale si?ig. Observe that in such expressions the two verbs always stand together in French. — 7. en disant, by saying ; comp. en and part, with other prepositions and infill., 2, note 42, and 4, note 45. — 8. si bien, so much so. — 9. il y eut ; comp. the tense with il y avait at note 1. — 10. à, on. — 11. ce; comp. 2, note 2,7- — 12. comp. 4, note 31. — 13. soit ; comp. 3, note ^. — 14. il fit appeler, he caused to be called, he sent for ; comp. 4, note 40.

— 15. Pourquoi. . . parlé, why has no 071e spoken to 7?ie of it ? il repeats the subject, as frequently in interrogations. — 16. en, of it, depends on entendu parler, with which comp. provincial Eng., " / have never heard tell of it."

— 17. Comp. 2, note 25. — 18. où le trouver, where find him, where is he to be found? — 19. je ferai fouetter jusqu'au sang, I shall have . . . whipped until the blood comes; comp. note 14. — 20. fouettât; comp. 3, note 13; avoir envie == vouloir. — 21. Comp. note 5. — 22. en, from it, referring to preceding sentence. — 23. comp. note 6. — 24. ma foi, upon my word ; lit., (by) my faith. — 25. ce sont . . . mugissent, it is the cows lowing; for ce sont, comp. 1, note 4, and note agreement of verb. — 26. le voilà, there he is-, lit., see him there ; comp. 1, note 23. — 27. du; comp. 3, note 38. — 28. que, that, so that. — 29. se, reciprocal, each other. — 30. en, idiomatic use of en for de; comp. lampes d'or, above. — 31. comp. 1, note 14. — 32. en, with it; comp. 1, note 20. — 33. de son mieux, (at) his best. — 34, se . . . la bouche, their mouths-, se, indirect reflexive for possessive. — 35. ce qui, which ; comp. ce que, 2, note 9. — 36. Comp. this construction with 2, note 43. — 37. la nuit; note omission of preposition. — 38. lui, his, referring to rossignol; comp. 3, note 24. — 3g. possédât; comp. 1, note 18. — 40. devait imiter ; comp. 4, note 38. — 41. Qu'on les fasse chanter, make them sing ; comp. also 4, note 46. — 42. en mesure, in time. — 43. aux yeux ; comp. 2, note 4. — 44. faisant chanter has for its indirect object oiseau, for its direct morceau; comp. 2, note 35. — 45. il y manque ; comp. 3, note 4. — 46. offerts . . . étalés, why plural ? — 47. on se serait rangé, one would have placed himself, or been placed. — 48. d'autant plus, (by) so much the i?iore agreeable. — 4g. envoya chercher, sent for ; lit, sent (some one) to hunt. — 50. médecin is subject of pouvait, an inversion common in questions and in subordinate clauses after que. — 51. fit venir, sent for ; comp. note 49. — 52. que here stands for parce que. — 53. proclamer; comp. 2, note 52. — 54. lui, his ; comp. 3, note 24. — 55. rien de pareil, any thing (of) similar.— 56. était resté, had remained. — 57. de, by. — 58. à, on. — 59. le plus . . . possible, the most . . . possible ; as promptly as possible.

Page 31. — 1. Snowwhite and Rosered. — 2. C'étaient; comp. 1, note 4. — 3. eût ; comp. 3, note 32. — 4. lui faisait la lecture, read to her. — 5. se ; comp. 5, note 29. — 6. toutes les fois ; comp. 4, note 9. — 7. Tant que, as long as. Note fut. for Eng. près. — 8. devra être, will have to be. — 9. jamais . . . fâcheux, never did any thing (of) bad happen to them ; il is impersonal and de partitive ; omitted in Eng.— 10. Comp. sans with subj. when the subject is changed, with sans with infTn., 2, note 42. — 11. attachait, fixed. — 12. y, over it ; lit., there. — 13. de ; comp. de in note 9. — 14. on aurait pu se mirer dedans, one cotcld have seen himself in it (the woodwork) as in a mirror. — 15. tant bien, so well. — 16. va mettre, go and push ; note difference of idiom after verbs of motion. — 17. tout en filant, all the while spinning ; tout is emphatic. — 18. la tête ; comp. 1, note 2. — 19. on, some one. — 20. courut se cacher ; comp. note 16. — 21. prends garde ; comp. eutgarde, 2, note 50. — 22. toutes deux, both. — 23. Dès l'aurore, at dawn. — 24. A partir, starting or beginning ; comp. 2, note 42. — 25. que is often used to avoid repeating other conjunctions; here = quand. — 26. à la maraude, marauding. — 27. elle crut voir, she thought she saw. The infln. is used when the subject of both verbs is the same. — 28. ce que ; comp. 2, note 36. — 29. au ; comp. 2, note 21, and also with avec in next line. — 30. longue d'une aune, an ell long. — 31. plantées, fixed, standing. — 32. où je m'y attendais le moins, when 1 least expected it ; comp. 2, note 29.-33. vous êtes déjà trop de vous deux, there are already two too many of you. — 34. pas without verb = ne . . . pas with verb. — 35. le dessus, the advantage; lit, the above, the upper hand. — 36. Il avait beau, it was useless for him . — 37. Comp. the two constructions after falloir. — 38. Puissiez, may. — 39. Comp. 4, note 45. — 40. Ne . . . prendre, could you not have gone about it? — 41. se remirent en chemin, started again on their way. — 42. pût, could. — 43. à les considérer, (in) looking at them. To look at would be pour considérer. — 44. n'ayez pas peur, don't be afraid; comp. 1, note 10. — 45. après m'avoir volé, after having stolen from me ; me is in French indir. obj.

Page 38. — 1. Il était, there was ; impersonal construction. — 2. il jouait à la Bourse, he speculated or gambled in stocks. — 3. font mouvoir, move ; lit., make move ; comp. 2, note 52. — 4. à faire, in making. — 5. aussi . . . âne, as much of a millionnaire as an ass can be (it) ; for le see 3, note 40. — 6. que here = comme ; comp. 6, note 25. — 7. à la (mode) anglaise, in the English style.

— 8. de prince, princely ; comp. 4, note 23. — 9. de before names of persons in French is a sign of nobility, like German von. — 10. eux, disjunctive pron., subject of seraient. — 11. Note use of ne after comparative ; omit in Eng. — 12. se seraient-ils écriés, they would have exclaimed ; the position of ils is due to the preceding clause which has the force of an adverb. Comp. 1, note 32. — 13. d'autant plus ; comp. 5, note 48. — 14. tu ne te doutais guère, you scarcely suspected. — 15. Te souvient-il, do you remember ? Impersonal use of souvenir. — 16. Comp. médecin, 5, note 50. — 17. de, with. Observe that de occurs four times in this sentence, and each time with a different meaning. — 18. se parlant bas à l'oreille, whispering to each other. — 19. Il fait le riche, he acts or plays the rich man. — 20. Observe that hôte is indirect object, luxe direct; in Eng. they are interchanged. — 21. ils l'auraient traité d'avare, they would have called hi?n (lit., treated him as) a miser.

— 22. rompre les chiens, to call off the dogsy throw them off the scent. He wished to give his acquaintances time to forget what he had been. — 23. eaux, watering place -, springs. — 24. n'y engagent à rien, mean (lit., bind to) nothing there. — 25. Comp. 5, note 29.-26. fit chercher; comp. 4, note 40. — 27. se, indirect reûex.,from each other. — 28. il s'agit, it is a question. — 29. de société ; comp. 4, note 23. — 30. en refers to Paris ; trans., there. — 31. bois de Boulogne, a park near Paris. — 32. mis, dressed. — 33. menait plus grand train, put oji more style. — 34. merveilleux, "exquisites" fops.

— 35. on lui faisait, was inflicted on him ; comp. 2, note 25. — 36. plur. for Eng. sing. — 37. fit remettre ; comp. 5, note 14. — 38. peu lui importait que, it mattered little to him whether. — 39. quelle que, whatever. — 40. pensionnaires, boarding-school girls. — 41. plaisait; comp. 4, note 27.

— 42. détourné, indirect. — 43. nonplus, either; lit., 7io more, that is, no more than the others. — 44. sensibles, sentimental. — 45. Comp. note 19.— 46. autres; omit in Eng. — 47. se fit prier, allowed himself to be tirged ; comp. 4, note 40. — 48. Petite, poor. — 49. Voix de fausset, falsetto voice.

— 50. qu'on en lui demanderait, that he should be asked for some. For lui, see 2, note 35. — 51. habitude du monde, experience in society . — 52. devez être, must be. — 53. Que = combien. — 54. fallu; comp. this construction

with 4, note 28. — 55. Comp. 6, note 36. — 56. se mit sur les rangs, entered the list (of contestants). — 57. n'y pouvait plus tenir, could hold out no longer. — 58. lui; comp. 2, note 35. — 59. que devenir, what would become of him ; lit., what to become. — 60. il vint, there happened ; comp. note 1.

— 61. Il a Pair malade, he looks ill. — 62. A peine . . . que, scarcely . . . than, trans, when. — 63. Comp. 5, note 50. — 64. de ce côté, in this direction.

— 65. que, how ; exclamatory. — 66. je voudrais être arrivé à la maison. I wish I were (arrived) at home. For être, comp. 6, note 27.