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leading all these years? (ib. ITI, 197). — Mari- 
anna is with me, hardly recovered of the fever 
which has been attacking all Italy last winter 
(Byron, Letters! s. 125). — I have been thinking, 
and talking, and reading Agriculture this last 
week (Shelley, Ess. 316). — I have been expecting 
every day a writ to attend at your court (ib. 
340). — Infinitiv: We are much pained to hear 
of the illness you all seem fo have been suffering 
(ib. 316). 
B. Pluskvamperfektum: 
Anm. 
All the morning he had been lyimg hidden in å 
corner of the sheepfold (Ward, Grieve I, 96). — 
He had been conducting a difficult negotiation all 
day (ib. I, 242). — During the three weeks which 
had ended for David and Elise in this scene of 
passion, Louie had been deliberately going her 
own way (ib. II, 232). — The French, mean- 
while, had been gradually extending eastwards from 
their possessions i Senegambia (19. Cent. June 
95, 899). 
Imidlertid finder man her ikke sjelden det uomskrevne 
udtryk. A. Perfektum: Dick Patton and one or two 
others gave evidence as to the language he has habi- 
tually «sed about Westall for months past (Grieve, Mar- 
cella IT, 116). — I have drawn since I was eight years 
old (Ward, Grieve II, 139). — You've had a will of 
your own ever since I've known you (ib. III, 72). — 
I have suffered extremely this winter (Shelley, Ess. 319). 
— B. Pluskvamperfektum: The girl was just twenty, 
but she had lived for years, first with a disreputable 
father, and then — (Ward, Marcella IT, 162). — The 
wind was wailing at the windows; it had wailed all 
day (Bell, Villette I, 50). — That complete dearth of love 
in which he had lived ever since his father died (Ward, — 
1 ,Ihe Letters of Lord Byron (Selected). Edited, with Introduction, 
by Mathilde Blind. The Scott Library. London, Walter Scott 18874. 
