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Yes, Sir, I speak to them about (de) this affair. 11. Do they 

 give you good advice ? 12. They give me good advice and good 

 examples. 13. Do you go to your sister every day ? 14. I 

 go to her every morning at a quarter before nine. 15. Does 

 she like to see (voir) you ? 16. She likes to see me, and she 

 receives me well. 17. Do you think of this affair ? 18. I think 

 of it the whole day. 19. Do you speak of it with (avec) your 

 brother ? 20. We speak of it often. 21. Do you send your 

 companion to my house? 22. I send him every day. 23. Are 

 you at home every day ? 24. I am there every morning at ten 

 o'clock. 25. Do you like to go to church ? 26. I like to go 

 there every Sunday with a companion. 27. Do you speak of 

 your houses? 28. I speak of them (en). 29. Does your brother 

 speak of his friends ? 30, Yes, Sir, ho speaks of them (d'eux). 

 31. Does he think of them ? 32. Yes, Sir, he thinks of them 

 (d eux). 33. Does he think of this news ? 34. Yes, Sir, he 

 thinks of it (y). 35. I love and honour them. 



SECTION XXVII. BESPECTIVB PLACE OF THE PEONOTJNS. 



1. When two pronouns occur, one used as a direct object of 

 the verb (accusative), and the other as the indirect object (dative), 

 the indirect object, if not in the third person singular or plural, 

 must precede the direct object [ 101 (1)]. 



Je vous le donne, I give it to you. 



II me le donne, He gives it to me. 



II nous le donne, He gives it to us. 



2. When the pronoun used as an indirect object [dative, Sect. 

 XXV. 2] is in the third person singular or plural, it must be 

 placed after the direct object [ 101 (2)]. 



Nous le lui donnons, 

 Nous le leur donnons, 



We give it to him. 

 We give it to them. 



3. The above rules of precedence apply also to the imperative 

 used negatively : 



Ne nous le donnez pas (E. 1), Do not give it us. 



Ne le lui donnez pas (E. 2), Do not give it to him. 



4. With the imperative used affirmatively, the direct object 

 precedes in all cases the indirect object [ 101 (5)]. 



Donnez-le-nous, Give it to us. 



Montrez-le-leur, Show it to them. 



5. En and y always follow the pronouns : 



Je lui en donne, 

 II nous y envoie, 



I give him some. 

 He sends us thither. 



6. PRESENT OF THE INDICATIVE OF THE IRREGULAR VERBS. 



VOIK, to see. VOULOIR, to be witting. POUVOIE, to be able. 



Je vois, I see, do see, or Je veux, I will, or am Je puis, or je peux, I 



am seeing. willing. can, I may, am able. 



Tu vois. Tu veux. Tu peux.* 



II voit. II veut. II peut. 



Nous voyons. Nous voulons. Nous pouvons. 



Vous voyez. Vous voulez. Vous pouvez. 



Us voient. Us veulent. Us peuvent. 



7; The above verbs take no preposition before another verb. 

 8. The preposition pour is used to render the preposition to, 

 when the latter means in order to. 



Je vais chez vous pour parler a I go to your house to speak to your 

 votre frere et pour vous voir, brother and to see you. 



J'ai besoin d'argent pour aoheter I want money to (in order to) buy 

 des marchandises, 



RESUME OF EXAMPLES. 



Voulez-vous nous le donner ? 

 Je veux vous le preter. 

 Pouvez-vous me les donner ? 

 Je ne puis vous les donner. 

 Votre frere peut-il le lui envoyer ? 

 II ne veut pas le lui envoyer. 

 Qni veut le leur preter ? 

 Personne ne veut le leur preter. 

 Envoyez-les-nous. 

 Ne nous les envoyez pas. 

 Donuez-nous-en. 

 Ne leur en envoyez pas. 

 Envoyez-le-leur, pour les con- 

 tenter. 

 Je puis vous 1'y envoyer. 



Will you give it to us ? 



I will Zend it to you. 



Can you give them to me ? 



I cannot give them, to you. 



Can your brother send it to him 1 



He will not send it to him. 



Who will lend it to tliem ? 



No one will lend it to them. 



Send them to us. 



Do not send them to us. 



Give us some (of it). 



Do not send them any. 



Send it to them (in order), to satisfy 



them. 

 I can send it to you there. 



* After the verbs pou^oir, to be able; oser, to dare; savoir. to know, 

 the negative pas may be omitted. 



Commis, m., clerk. 

 Connaissance, f., ac- 

 quaintance. 



Croi-re,4, ir., to belieue. 

 Dette, f., debt. 

 D-evoir, 3, to owe. 



VOCABULARY. 



Gucre, but little. 

 Marclmnde de modes, 



f., milliner. 

 Montr-er, 1, to sTiow. 

 Oubli-er, 1, to forget. 

 Pay-er, 1, to yay. 



Poisson, m., fish. 

 Pologne, f., Poland. 

 Preter, 1, fo Zend. 

 Semaine, f., week. 

 Souvent, often. 

 Voyage, m., journey. 



EXERCISE 49. 



1. Voulez-vous donner ce livre a mon frere? 2. Je puis le 

 lui preter, mais je ne puis le lui donner. 3. Voulez-vous nous 

 les envoyer ? 4. La marchande de modes peut vous les envoyer. 

 5. Les lui montrez-vous ? 6. Je les vois et je les lui montre. 

 7. Avez-vous peur de nous les preter ? 8. Je n'ai pas peur de 

 vous les preter. 9. Ne pouvez-vous nous envoyer du poisson ? 

 10. Je ne puis vous en envoyer, je n'en ai guere. 11. Voulez- 

 vous leur en parler? 12. Je veux leur en parler, si je ne 1'oublie 

 pas. 13. Venez-vous souvent les voir ? 14. Je viens les voir 

 tous les matins, et tous les soirs. 15. Ne leur parlez-vous point 

 de votre voyage en Pologne ? 16. Je leur en parle, mais il ne 

 veulent pas me croire. 17. Est-ce que je vois mes connaissances 

 le Lundi? 18. Vous les voyez tous les jours de la semaine. 19. 

 Vous envoient-elles plus d'argent que le commis de notre mar- 

 chand. 20. Elles m'en envoient plus que lui. 21. En envoyez- 

 vous au libraire ? 22. Je lui en envoie quand je lui en dois. 

 23. N'avez-vous pas tort de lui en envoyer? 24. Je ne puis 

 avoir tort de payer mes dettes. 



EXERCISE 50. 



1. Will you send us that letter ? 2. I will send it to you, if 

 you will read it. 3. I will read it if (si) I can. 4. Can you lend 

 me your pen ? 5.1 can lend it to you, if you will take care of 

 it. (Sect. XXI. 3.) 6. May I speak to your father ? 7. You 

 may speak to him, he is here. 8. Are you afraid of forgetting 

 it? (Sect. XX. 4.) 9. I am not afraid of forgetting it. 10. 

 Will you send them to him P 11. I intend to send them to him, 

 if I have time. 12. Do you speak to him of your journey. 13. 

 I speak to him of my journey. 14. I speak to them of it. 15. 

 Can you communicate it to him? 16. I have a wish to com- 

 municate it to him. 17. Do you see your acquaintances every 

 Monday ? 18. I see them every Monday and every Thursday. 

 19. Where do you intend to see them ? 20. I intend to see 

 them at your brother's and at your sister's. 21. Can you send 

 him there every day ? 22. I can send him there every Monday, 

 if he wishes (s'il le veui). 23. Can you give them to me ? 24. I 

 can give them to you. 25. Who will lend them books ? 26. No 

 one will lend them any. 27. Your bookseller is willing to sell them 

 good books and good paper. 28. Is he at home ? 29. He is at 

 his brother's. 30. Are you wrong to pay your debts ? 31. I 

 am right to pay them. 32. Will you send it to us ? 33. I am. 

 willing to send it to you, if you want it. 34. Are you willing 

 to give them to us ? 35. We are willing to give them to your 

 acquaintances. 



HISTORIC SKETCHES. VIII. 



THE GORDON RIOTS. 



" MY Lord George, do you really mean to bring your .rascally 

 adherents into the House of Commons ? If you do, the first 

 man of them that enters I will plunge my sword, not into his 

 body, but into yours." Strong language, certainly, especially 

 for the House of Commons, and yet never was speech spoken 

 more earnestly or significantly than this, and the unusual 

 character of it passed without rebuke from the Speaker. The 

 person addressed was Lord George Gordon, the man who 

 addressed him was his own kinsman, Colonel Murray ; the date 

 of the speech was Friday, the 2nd June, 1780, and the occasion 

 on which it was delivered will be set forth in the following 

 sketch. 



Soon after the death of Henry VIII., in 1547, the policy or 

 impolicy, the religious zeal or the intolerant spirit which you 

 will of the English Government, deemed it necessary that those 

 who lately had been subject to systematic persecution for their 

 religious opinions should change places with their persecutors. 

 Laws of the most stringent kind were passed by the Protestant 

 king, Edward VI., against Papists, as the professors of the Roman 

 Catholic faith were then commonly called, and by them it was 

 made an offence punishable with heavy fine and imprisonment, 

 and in certain cases capitally, for a man to hold the faith in 



