1. How can you hope to find anything good at the rate of seventy-five francs a term? 2. How dreadful it is to see snares everywhere and to be always on the alert! 3. Were I to live a hundred years, I should never forget all I suffered. 4. You may accept if you like, but I do not see what you will gain by it. 5. It seems that at the last moment he has changed his mind. 6. The windows of the dining-room looked out on to the garden. 7. The head master spoke little, and in a curt, gruff voice. 8. There was not one street in the town that he did not know. 9. I have a mind to go, and I will go, come what may. 10. I had been told that his library contained more than two thousand volumes, and I had no doubt but that I should find there the book I wanted. 11. My neighbour was sitting astride a low chair, with his legs stretched out. 12. I at length succeeded in explaining as well as I could the object of my visit. 13. Mind you don’t spoil my book, or I’ll cut off your ears! 14. They might just as well have finished whilst they were at it. XII (pp. 56—60) 1. You must redouble your efforts, or else you will never pull through. 2. When you want any books, you will only have to come and take them. 3. Tell him that he can believe me, for I have been through it all. 4. Thereupon he resumed his reading and let me go out without even looking at me. 5. I had entered without anyone suspecting my presence. 6. At last the appointed day came, and it was high time, for I could stand it no longer. 7. Stretched out in his arm-chair, he was listening to his neighbours with an absent-minded air. 8. A few bald gentlemen were mopping their heads with flame-coloured silk handkerchiefs. 9. As soon as he had finished his speech, there was a general uproar. 10. “Which way must we go?”—“Come this way.” 11. Do not allow yourself to be so easily discouraged. 12. The children had gone bird-catching with a bird-call. 13. Being quite alone, I spent nearly all my time reading. 14. As usual he answered “Thank you!” without taking his eyes off his book. 15. The little patient dreamt of it every night, he could sleep no longer for it. XIII (pp. 61—65)