Comment voulez-vous que ce qui est à vous
how can you suppose that what is yours. Note this fréquent use of vouloir.
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159* — 10. For this ingenious close of a charmîng story see the Préface to this volume, p. 6.
14. oomxne la France, capable de résurrection, like France^ capable of résurrection — i. e. a rising to her former glory after the defeat (so humîliating) of 1871. The air in France is so full of this idea — the national humiliation— that it finds its way into much of the literature written since that time.