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15 21 vous apparaissait d'une hauteur! 'was a wonderful thing indeed! Vous is the common ethical dative, to be omitted in translation, cf. the Shakespearean "Knock me that door!" and "There's perfection for you! " D'une hauteur! suppression for emphasis far more frequent in French than in English, cf.30 17, 49 25 Note the play on the words haut, Hauteur 14 5 n'entendait ... oreille-l
This error is common in the speech of the uneducated classes. n'me: the e of ne is omitted as in conversational French. Se is used as a reciprocal pronoun several times in this paragraph. 7 4 depuis ... chantent 'in all the time that they have been singing them to one another. Chantent is present tense with depuis. 7 5 en changer: cf. note to 1 3. 7 6 n'y touche: cf. note to 2 29.
13 1 Plus de doutes: 'no more doubt', cf.1 17 With plus, pas, jamais, rien, and other words of this type ne is omitted when the verb is omitted, but cf.71 8, 88 3. 13 3 se ramassait sur lui-même. 'gathered himself, 'crouched'. 13 13 de long en large: 'up and down'. 13 18: faire son bezigue: 'to play his game of bezique, a game of Cards.
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