IO.

Die Hände in den Schooß legen is a conversational and proverbial phrase for sitting down and doing nothing.

il. More usually, zur Hand.
12. Ce propriétaire-là que veut-il donc ?

13. plaßte=würde plaßen, if we had been beaten and the enemy were throwing shell into the town.

14. vermaledeit, 'confounded'-a strong expression not fit for the drawing-room. Comp. Latin maledicere, Fr. maudit.

15. nicht is superfluous; it would be correct, if the thought were expressed in the following manner: mich so sehr genirt habe, daß ich meine Landkarten nicht aufnageln ließ. For the fact itself comp. above p. 52.

16. During the whole day of battle they ought to have been on their knees praying for our success. 17. Now more commonly das Gift.

PAGE 68. 1. ausschreien=verschreien, they will clamour against you as a tyrant and barbarian.

2. To feel edified by the good-will of the master of the house. 3. She has anticipated all your wishes.

It is very common in Germany for a friend of the house to be treated by the children as their uncle'.

5. More correctly, ich habe Euch wegen Guerer Fassung bewundert.

6. An imitation of the Fr. adorer. The interpreter is speaking throughout in the exaggerated style of French complimentary language.

PAGE 69. I. The Count means to say that vanity is not his weakness. Etwas treffen is 'to hit'.

unerwartet is an adverb. 3. rich enthalten is another of those numerous reflective verbs which govern the genitive.

4. Observe the preposition which is very idiomatic in this phrase. In English we should, of course, say into.

5. Etwas verschlafen means to lose something by sleeping.

4.

2.

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I.

He never introduced any variations into his tale when repeating it.
A Spaniard's bearing is more stately, a Frenchman's more

2.

lively.

3. More currectly (on account of the difference of genders) oder seinen Charakter.

4. verpönte, see above p. 65, n. 7.
5. oberster Polizeimeister, chef de police.
6. in sich gezogner is unusual instead of mehr zurüdgezogen.

7. ftufenweise, gradatim, always rising from a lower to a higher appointment.

8. die Charge is a French term instead of the German die Anstellung.

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