Je me suis fait. — I hâve become

1. Quand la bise fut venue. — When winter came. Bise, literally, north wind, is poetically used for winter. Venir is conjugated with être, not avoir. See Grammar, p. 135, § 4. Hence in fut venue, literally, had come, the past part, agrées in gender and number with the subject bise. See Grammar, p. 363, § 2.

2. Elle alla crier famine. — She went to complain of her poverty ; literally, to cry famine.

3. Avant l'oût. — Before harvest. Oût, or more properly août, usually means the month of August.

4. Foi d'animal. — Imitated from such phrases as foi de gentilhomme, upon the honor of a gentleman.

5. Nuit et jour, a tout venant. — Day and night, to ail who came ; literally, to every corner. See Grammar, p. 76, § 2.

6. Ne vous déplaise. — Qu'il ne vous en déplaise (may it not displease you), or, elliptically, ne vous déplaise, is used familiarly as a kind of excuse. It may be translated, according to circumstances, if you please, by your leave, &c.

1. Et n'en diffère guère que. — And differs but little from it except. Guère formerly signified much, but is now used only with the négation, and hence means not much, but little.

2. Font. — Présent of faire, to make, to cause, p. 180, § 27.