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à ne pcus en aimer un autre, in not hving another

A good ezample of the seemingly superfluous en, Its

^ force, though felt, could not be expressed by English

words.

30. qui valent mieux que moi, wko are better than L ^ Lit., * worth better,* a fréquent use of valoir.

147* — 7. vous l'avez fait vivre, you kave kept him olive. Lit. ^ * made him to live.* Note that le would hâve been lui, if

^^ vivre had been a transitive verb, see Less. 39, iii. Note 2.

f 9. il serait mort depuis six mois, he wovld hâve died

d' six months ago,

-- lé8«— 1. sans que le malade pût enoore la voir, without

^^ the sick man's y et being able to «ee her. For the subjunc-

;ci^ tive pût., see Lésa. 56, iii. Ex. 4, and note that such sub-

junctives do not require the subjunctive in English. i 9. j'ai repris le chemin de la France, / started on my

retum to France.

;, èi 149* — 6. kwas, an intoxicating drink, used in Russia, obtained

i^is by fermenting in water rye flour or crusts of bread, or

reit sometimes obtained from acid fruits.

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