Vis. — Présent of vivre, to live, p

4. Parent. — Etymologically and primarily, this word has the same signification as the corresponding English one. But it often means, as in the présent instance, relative, relation ; it has then a féminine form also, parente.

5. Oh ! que non ! — Oh ! no indeed I For this use of que, see Grammar, p. 308, § 7.

6. Mais enfin avez-vous h vous plaindre de quelqu'un? — Weli then, hâve you occasion to complain of any one ? Mais enfin, literally, means but in fine. Plaindre is to pity ; but se plaindre is to complain. Avoir is one of the verbs which govern the infinitive with a, see Grammar, p. 349 ; as, avoir a faire, to hâve (something) to do ; avoir a dire, to be commissioned or impelled — to feel obliged — to say.

7. Revenu a la maison. — Having returned home, or when he got home. See Grammar, p. 370, § 3.

8. Les uns prétendaient qu'il fallait . . . le lendemain. — Some declared the hay must be got in that day, others that it must not be till the next day. For prétendaient, see L, note 11. Fallait, literally, it was necessary. See Grammar, p. 147 and 148. Lendemain means the day following the one spoken of, the morrow ; its corrélative is la veille. Demain means to-morrow ; its corrélative is aujourd'hui.