de sa chance, by his (usual) good luck

78. — 12. laisser le Gascon de côté, kave ovt the Gascon; i. e.

*betruthfuU 79. — 1. s'il leur arrivait parfois d'être, if they happened to be

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sometimes. Note the impersonal constnictîoD, more common in French than in ËQglish.

79. — 9. ce n'était pas la seule cause . . . que l'étrangre fantaisie, etc., the strange faney^ etc. was not Oie only cause. Note that when the logical subject of the copula is thus separated from the verb, it is often introduced by qae^ redundant in Ënglish.