1. I should have liked that day to have lasted for ever. 2. Several big boats were going down stream. 3. Groping his way towards us, he cried out, “Who goes there?” 4. The noise was so great that you could hear it a mile off. 5. The next day, when I sent for it, it was not to be found anywhere. 6. The more of those horrid creatures she killed, the more there came. 7. The poor girl, who loved my mother passionately, could not make up her mind to leave us. 8. We had to put her on board by force, and as soon as she arrived in the south, she married there from sheer despair. 9. My parents did not take another servant, which seemed to me the depth of poverty. 10. If you are not happy, I assure you that I am not either. 11. Everybody had at length taken a dislike to him. 12. It is no use your telling him not to do it, he will do it all the same. 13. Why do you not want me to go with them? 14. I hope (_use a conjunction instead of a verb_) nothing has happened to him! IV (pp. 16—20) 1. Where are the children? Go and see what has become of them. 2. We had been in Lyons for about two months when our parents thought of our studies. 3. What struck me most on my arrival was that I was the only one that wore a blouse. 4. The master at once took a violent dislike to me. 5. When he spoke to him, it was always in a most off-hand manner. 6. What do you call these flowers? How nice they smell! 7. The covers of his books were always torn, and sometimes there were pages missing. 8. Nobody will blame you if you really do your best. 9. I have just received your favour of the eighth instant. 10. From time to time the door was gently opened, and she entered on tiptoe. 11. Having double-locked the door, he came to me with a mysterious air. 12. By way of answer he took a red copy-book from under his jacket. 13. How gladly I would have fallen upon his neck, had I dared! 14. The first four lines only were done so far. 15. The rest, which he said was but a matter of time, he was never able to manage. 16. Do what he would, the poet never got farther than these four lines. V (pp. 21—25)