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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.

You cannot imagine the scie that became my pastel; it is so very good every one speaks of it to my friends who come to me and say what they have heard. I am quite sorry it is not picture. Bastien says that it is art even if it were a mere fusain.

Such works, too, consisting of a continuous narrative, present to most students the discouraging prospect of a formidable undertaking which they fear will never be completed. On the other hand, a mere book of fables, although free from the last objection, is, in general, too narrow in its scope to fulfil the desired end.

They will see in it, and not unnaturally, nothing but a successful attempt of the revolutionary part to degrade Monarchy, supported by English jealousy of French influence. I am not at all surprised that Spaniards should view with suspicion any proceeding whatever on the part of France, and that they should imagine there was some intention to slight the Regent and his authority.

So wise, so young, they say do ne'er live long. Ils traversèrent plusieurs salles pleines de gardes, et arrivèrent enfin dans une chambre plus sombre, où ils trouvèrent leur père calme et digne, écrivant devant une table.

In 1865, at the death of Morny, he gave up his secretaryship and applied himself exclusively to literature. In 1866 he met Julie Allard, and early the next year they were married. To his wife, a lady of exquisite taste, Daudet owed unfailing encouragement and competent, sympathetic criticism.

If the government entertained the same opinion as his noble friend of prince de Talleyrand, it would be their duty to represent to His Majesty the king of the French that they could not transact business with such a person.

69 4 il fallait me voir: cf. note to 24 3. 69 5 vernissées a neuf: 'varnished so that they shone like new.

Be these causes what they may, I fully admit that such engagements, if not executed with cordiality and zeal by both the contracting parties, must become less likely to answer the purpose intended, and their value be justly impaired.

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