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2 QUATKllSME CONJUGAISON.<br />
Si vous Uses: 'II aima la justice',<br />
A tout le monde il la rendit;<br />
C'est une faute encor: je connaissais Fabrice;<br />
Lisez passant: 'il la vendit\<br />
(c) 1. Comment vous plaisez-vous dans cette ville? 2. Quels auteurs allemands<br />
lit -on dans votre classe? 3. Y lit -on aussi des auteurs latins?<br />
4. Que boit-on en Angleterre? 5. Cela vous deplait-il?<br />
(d) 1 Does that please you? No, it does not please me at all. 2. How<br />
do you like Paris? I like it very well. 3. Be silent! no more (= I<br />
have enough) of your absurd tales. 4. God forbid that I should ever<br />
consent to it ( 194. a). 5. Let them be silent. 6. I have been silent<br />
too long. 7. The birds are hushed. 8. Our guns<br />
have silenced those of<br />
the enemy. 9. You do nothing but read. 10. What newspaper are you<br />
reading? We are reading the 'Journal des Debats'. 11. Have you<br />
read George Elliot's novels? Yes, I have read them and shall read<br />
them again. 12. If you would read louder, we should hear you better.<br />
13. Why don't you drink? I have already drunk enough. 14. I cannot<br />
write on this paper, it blots. 15. Give us to drink. 16. Diogenes used<br />
to drink out of the hollow of his hand.<br />
17. A lady who was writing a letter perceived that a young man was<br />
reading<br />
this letter over her shoulders. Then she added: I should have<br />
yet many things to tell you, but Mr. A. is behind me, and reads all<br />
that ( 217) I am writing. I beg your pardon, Madam, exclaimed the<br />
indiscreet [youth], I have read nothing ( 238. b).<br />
XLVIE 6<br />
legon: Croire,<br />
conclure. 98. I. C.<br />
(a) 'Croire quelque chose', c'est 1'estimer veritable: Je crois ce que vous me dites.<br />
'Croire a quelque chose', c'est y ajouter foi, y avoir confiance: Je crois a<br />
Pefficacite' de ce remede.<br />
'Croire quelqu'un', c'est ajouter<br />
foi a ce qu'il<br />
dit: II faut croire vos parents.<br />
'Croire a quelqu'un' c'est croire<br />
Croire 3UX sorciers,<br />
& son existence:<br />
c'est croire qu'il y en a;<br />
Croire les sorciers, c'est croire ce qu'ils disent.<br />
En faire accroire.<br />
A Ten croire.<br />
Je crois que oui (que non).<br />
To impose upon.<br />
fie If is to be believed.<br />
/ think so (not).<br />
II a, a ce que je crois, beaucoup He has, 1 think (to the best of my belief)<br />
d'influence.<br />
much influence.<br />
Croyez le bien (Croyez bien que ...). Depend upon it. Take my word for it.<br />
Construction du verbe 'croire' ( 152).<br />
Ilsont cruvoirles tombes ee sou- They thought they saw the graves up-\<br />
lever. heaving.