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