The following expreffions and the like, which are frequently used to make the fenfe of our forms of Speech, either more clear, or better connected together, are called invariable, becaufe they do not admit of a diverfity of grammatical terminations, as thofe of the preceding Sections do. H 4

PHRASES

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Propres à exercer les jeunes Gens dans la Langue Françoise.

I.

Pour Aborder & Saluer quelqu'un.
Of Meeting & Saluting a Perfen.

MONSIEUR, Madame, ou

Mademoifelle*, je vous fouhaite le bon jour. Comment vous portez-vous

ce matin?
Très-bien, Dieu merci.
Je me porte fort bien;
A votre fervice.

Prêt à vous rendre fervice.
Et vous comment va la fanté?
Affez bien.

Paffablement bien.
Tout doucement; là là.
A` mon ordinaire.
Parfaitement bien.
J'en fuis bien-aife.
Et vous Madame, comment
va l'état de votre fanté ?

Je ne me porte pas bien.,
J'en fuis fâché m, fâchée f.
Comment fe porte Monfieur
votre frère aujourd'hui ?
Il eft un peu indifpofé.

Il eft enrhumé, il a mal à la
tête.

Je fuis fàché d'aprendre qu'il
Le porte mal.

J'irai le voir ce soir.

SIR, Madam, or Mifs, I
wish you a good day, or good
morrow to you.
How do you do this morning?

Very well, thank God.
I am very well;
At your fervice..
Ready to ferve you.
And you, how is it with you?
Pretty well.
Tolerably well.
Indifferent, fo, Jo.
A's ufual,
Exceeding well.
I am very glad of it.
And you, Madam, how do you
enjoy your health?
I am not well.
I am forry for it.
How does your Brother do to-
day.
He is a little indifpofed.
He has got a cold; he has got
the head-ach.

I am forry to bear he is ill.

I'll go and fee bim this evening.

* Although I have omitted inferting either of these three titles, Monfieur, &c. in the following Phrafes, yet one of them is to be ufed, according to the Person spoken to, every time a Question or an Answer is made.

II.

Du. Tems et de l'Heure.

On the Weather and the Hour.

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