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la statue du Commandeur, which invites Don Juan to

supper, and finally punishes him for ail his misdeeds. See Molière' s Don Juan ou le Festin de Pierre. ,, 23. l'ombre de Banco : in Macbeth.

59. 4. saint Laurent, who was treasurer of the Church, having

refused to give up the funds in his keeping, underwent martyrdom at Rome in the third century.

,, 13. quelque anguille sous roche, ' anything in the wind' ; Ht. anguille, ' eel ' ; la roche, 'rock.' 15. il n'avait que faire de, ' he had no need whatever of,' ' he did not care a straw for. '

,, 19. M. Levrault l'eût fabriqué lui-même qu'il ne l'eût pas fait autrement, ' even if M. Levrault had made him himself, he w^ould not have made him différent. ' Quand (or quand même), also with the conditional, can be used in the same sensé.

, , 22. tourner la tête au grand industriel : notice this dative in speaking of parts of the body, and cf. une balle cassa la jambe à son cheval, ' a buUet broke his horse's leg. '

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