avait brûlé le pavé des faubourgs, ' had rattled full

speed through the suburbs.' 29. bien de la peine : the only adverb of quantity which takes the partitive article.

, , 30. à lui faire comprendre . . : why lui and not le f

17. 7. en verres : notice that verre is masculine, whilst its doublet

vitre, ' pane of glass,' is féminine.

,, 14. qui crevait dans sa peau : a famihar expression, ' who was ready to burst with pride. ' Observe crever de rire, ' to split one's sides with laughing' ; crever les yeux, ' to stare in the face,' * to be obvions.' 23. précédé, accoinpagné, suivi, take de instead oi par.

,, 28. à grand'peine : cf. grand' chose, grand' faim, grand' soif, grand' peur, etc. Thèse expressions are remnants of Old French, in which adjectives derived from Latin adjectives with two terminations only had no distinct termination for the féminine. The apostrophe was added towards the end of the sixteenth century by grammarians, who imagined that an e had been left out.

18. 2. à galons pistache : nouns used adjectivally to express colour

are, as a rule, invariable.

6. dans dix ans : en would be more correct, as dans expresses the time after which a thing is done, en the time taken in doing it.