à nous mettre en chemin de fer, to take the train

31. avoir pris à tache, to hâve mode up his mind. 76.— 23. ce fut le premier soin de M. de V. . . . que d'acheter, it was the first eare of M. de V, . . . to buy. Note that when the logîcal subject is an infinitive, as hère, it is regularly introduced bj de and sometimes by qvs de, the que more definitely identifying the subject, being redondant in Ënglish.

28. au point de le pénétrer de, to the point ofprodudng in him; lit, *filling him with,' pénétrer, *to pierce,' being active in French.