THE UNCLE FROM AMERICA

[Emile Souvestre (1806-1854). A distinguished joumalist. Wrote also many stories long and short. His best book is probably Un Philosophe sous les Toils.]

27. I— Dieppe, a French port on the English Channel. ,, — eût, subjunctive after âien que.

5— vît, subjunctive atter négative.

7— dont le théâtre a tant abusé, freely, ' a thème which has been so overdone on the stage. * II — quelque is adverb hère, hence no agreement.

28. 4— faisait . . . l'objet, 'had been— the object.' See note to

12— recueillie, ' received ' (into the family). 20 — voilà qu'il eût trouvé, freely ' would he not hâve found ! '

eût— aurait.

Pa^e. Line.

•28. 21 — faire observer means to cause another person to oDserve something, i. e. , to make a remark, to remark. aa—mam 'selle, colloquial for mademoiselle .

27— Ils ont eu beau embarquer leur fils. * it was useless

for them to send their son to sea.

28— à. cette fin. Colloquial for afin. 29— allez 1, ' I tell you ! *