Le Petit Chose Part 39

7. n.o.body seemed to know him, which greatly surprised me.

8. In reality he was an excellent man, although quick with his hands and loud of speech.

9. I really cannot understand why you lay the blame on me.

10. The revolutionists were not looked upon with much favour in the house.

11. My brother was scarcely two years older than myself.

12. What a singular man your friend is!

13. As far back as I can remember his eyes were always red.

14. You must start as soon as you can, without anybody knowing it.

II (pp. 6-10)

1. All that occurred on that day I still remember as if it had happened yesterday.

2. I had not been told of his departure, and they hardly suspected it either.

3. Although he played his part very well, if he had been asked what Robinson was, he would have been at a loss to answer.

4. My first business, on coming in, was to tell him that he must henceforth keep at home.

5. The richer one is, the more cares one has.

6. I tried in vain to make him say what was the matter with him.

7. The parrot, which my uncle had given me to be rid of its incessant talking, persisted in not speaking as soon as it was mine.

8. I had barely time to throw myself flat on my face behind a clump of oleanders.

9. I thought I recognized the porter's voice, which rea.s.sured me a little.

10. We were greatly afraid that they might chance to discover our hiding-place.

11. What would have become of us if they had remained a few minutes longer?

12. Luckily for him, nothing of the sort happened.

13. At the end of half an hour they retired without even suspecting that the island was inhabited.

14. As soon as they had gone, I ran and shut myself up in my hut.

15. My father, who had gone on before, had already been in Lyons for a week.

III (pp. 11-15)

1. I should have liked that day to have lasted for ever.

2. Several big boats were going down stream.

3. Groping his way towards us, he cried out, "Who goes there?"

4. The noise was so great that you could hear it a mile off.

5. The next day, when I sent for it, it was not to be found anywhere.

6. The more of those horrid creatures she killed, the more there came.

7. The poor girl, who loved my mother pa.s.sionately, could not make up her mind to leave us.

8. We had to put her on board by force, and as soon as she arrived in the south, she married there from sheer despair.

9. My parents did not take another servant, which seemed to me the depth of poverty.

10. If you are not happy, I a.s.sure you that I am not either.

11. Everybody had at length taken a dislike to him.

12. It is no use your telling him not to do it, he will do it all the same.

13. Why do you not want me to go with them?

14. I hope (_use a conjunction instead of a verb_) nothing has happened to him!

IV (pp. 16-20)

1. Where are the children? Go and see what has become of them.

2. We had been in Lyons for about two months when our parents thought of our studies.

3. What struck me most on my arrival was that I was the only one that wore a blouse.

4. The master at once took a violent dislike to me.

5. When he spoke to him, it was always in a most off-hand manner.

6. What do you call these flowers? How nice they smell!

7. The covers of his books were always torn, and sometimes there were pages missing.

8. n.o.body will blame you if you really do your best.

9. I have just received your favour of the eighth instant.

10. From time to time the door was gently opened, and she entered on tiptoe.

11. Having double-locked the door, he came to me with a mysterious air.

12. By way of answer he took a red copy-book from under his jacket.

13. How gladly I would have fallen upon his neck, had I dared!

14. The first four lines only were done so far.

15. The rest, which he said was but a matter of time, he was never able to manage.

16. Do what he would, the poet never got farther than these four lines.

V (pp. 21-25)

1. Let us talk of something else, if you have no objection.

2. Such was that scene, the horror of which I shall never forget.

3. If I pa.s.s over in silence this portion of my life, the reader will lose nothing by not knowing it.

4. It was always the same story, business not prospering, the rent in arrears, the plate in p.a.w.n.

5. Having said this, M. Eyssette senior began to walk with big strides without speaking.

6. I have only succeeded in getting us over head and ears in debt.

7. To get out of it, you have only one decision to come to.

8. From what I see, there is no time to be lost.

9. "Are you not acquainted with what is going on?" he asked, heaving a deep sigh.

10. It was not without difficulty that he at length tore himself away from his friends' embraces.

11. Travelling by himself and earning his living, he felt a grown-up man.

12. His father's friend was a fine old man, with nothing about him savouring of the pedant.

13. If you wish to please me, you will not lose sight of him.

14. Thereupon he ran down the stairs four steps at a time.

15. This first duty accomplished, he went in quest of a public-house within his means.

VI (pp. 26-30)

1. "This is just what I want," said he to himself.

2. It was a large room with whitewashed walls.

3. You cannot imagine how happy old Annou was to see her former master again!

4. In a trice the table was laid.

5. What a pity we must go! we were so comfortable here!

6. "A pleasant journey to you!" said one; "G.o.d bless you!"

exclaimed the other.

7. Did not Captain Cook go to sea again directly after his return to England?

8. It is astonishing that you should not understand so simple a matter.

9. We soon saw him running towards us at the top of his speed.

10. It is a small town in a narrow valley shut in on all sides by the mountains.

11. On the night of my arrival the north wind had been raging ever since the morning.