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Disant: "Regardez-bien, ma sœur ; Est-ce assez? dites-moi; n'y suis-je point encore?

"Nenni."-"M'y voici donc ?"-" Point du tout."--"M'y voilà ?

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-"Vous n'en approchez point." La chétive pécore

S'enfla si bien qu'elle creva.

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I shall have some bread. They would have some butter. We shall have some meat. You would have some vegetables.

LESSON XXXVI.

AVOIR.-Continued.

Je n'ai pas eu, I have not had, etc.
Je n'aurai pas, I shall not have, etc.

'Some' or 'any,' although understood in English, must be expressed in French: I have eggs, j'ai des œufs. After a negative de alone is used, je n'ai pas d'œufs.

Exercise 71.

Le monde est plein de gens qui ne sont pas plus sages:

Tout bourgeois veut bâtir comme les grands seigneurs,

Tout petit prince a des ambassadeurs,

Tout marquis veut avoir des pages.

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I have not had bread. I shall not have

meat.

Has he had butter? He has not had

butter. Has he not had butter?

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"De ta tige détachée,
Pauvre feuille desséchée,

Où-vas-tu?""Je n'en sais rien

L'orage a frappé le chêne
Qui seul était mon soutien."

VOCABULARY.

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They are on the mountain. We were in the valley. You are in the forest. The leaf is dried up. The leaf was detached. Thou art not. He was not. Art thou not?

VOCABULARY.

On, sur

in, dans

its, sa

LESSON XXXIX.

ÊTRE, TO BE,'-Continued.

Past participle: été, been,

PERFECT INDICATIVE.

J'ai été, I have been
tu as été, thou hast been
il a été, he has been

où, where

nous avons été, we have been vous avez été, you have been ils ont été, they have been

Exercise 77.

"Je vais où le vent me mène
Sans me plaindre ou m'effrayer;
Je vais où và toute chose
Où va la feuille de rose

Et la feuille de laurier."

VOCABULARY.

Vais, go

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m'effrayer, being frightened
va, goes
chose, thing

rose, rose

laurier, laurel

Exercise 78.

I have been in the forest. We have been

on the mountain. He has not been.

Have

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