il ne savait pas que je fusse & Paris, he did not

know ihai I «xu in Paris, For the subjunctive, compare 50-14.

16. c'est que, it is because. Note this common form in the •sensé of c'est parce que.

19. Le Monde où l'on s'Ennuie. Among the best of the comédies of Edouard Pailleron, first presented at the Théâtre Français in 1881, and stiil one of the most popular in its repertory. It is a fine study in modem character and manners. On the year of its first représentation the author was admitted to the French Academy, where he has delivered some remarkable discourses, published in 1886 under the title of Discours Académiques.

25. après que j'avais vu rentrer son cheval, after I had seen his horse retum. Note the tendency to group verbs in French, not separating them, as in English, by intervening words.

83. qu'elle n'avait pas laissée échapper, which she had not letfall. For the form laissécj see Less. 51, xiii. 2, Note 1.