Part 41

+~Als~ er seinen Gegner so sprechen ~hörte~, nahmen seine Züge den Ausdruck der Verachtung an.+

Having given his orders, the officer rode quickly away.

+~Nachdem er~ seine Befehle erteilt ~hatte~, ritt der Offizier schnell von dannen.+

Looking at me in a suppliant manner, a tear glittered in her eye.

+~Indem sie~ mich bittend ~ansah~, glänzte eine Thräne in ihrem Auge.+

I saw it when passing the house this morning.

+Ich sah es, ~als ich~ heute Morgen beim Hause ~vorüberging~.+

Consequently, the above passage must be rendered thus: ‘When Napoleon saw (+bemerken+) a young Prussian soldier who was pressing his flag to (+an+) his (S. 43, N. 9, A) bosom (+Herz+) in the agonies of death (+im Todeskampfe+, which place after ‘flag’), he said to his officers’: etc.

Say ‘You see, gentlemen’.

‘to approach’ here = to border (+an etwas grenzen+). For the construction see S. 16, N. 4.

Say ‘Bury this young man (+Jüngling+) without delay with military honours’.

that — write, +um ... schreiben zu können+. He writes to me once a month, +Er schreibt einmal monatlich ~an~ mich+.

Supply the pronoun +ihm+ (from him) after the Imperative.

+Leichentuch+, n.; ‘for him’ must be rendered by the dat. of the pers. pron., which place after the copula ‘will’.

+Der General Bourrienne war Privatsekretär und späterer Biograph Napoleons des Ersten.+

Section 56.

OUR CULTIVATED NATIVE PLANTS.

Most of the fruits which grow on trees, such as our apples and pears, have been greatly improved and raised above their natural state by grafting and other artificial means.

Of cultivated native plants, the chief are celery, parsley, the cabbage, turnip, carrot, parsnips, and the hop. The onion is a native of South France, the lettuce of Greece, the radish of China, and the rhubarb, now so largely used in pies and puddings, of Russia. Cress comes from Persia, spinach from some part of Asia, and the Jerusalem artichoke from Brazil.—HEWITT, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

+veredelt.+

+einheimisch.+

The clause ‘Most — trees’ may be briefly rendered by ‘+Die meisten Baumfrüchte+’.

Here follows the adverbial clause ‘by grafting — means’.

+bedeutend.+

‘raised — state’ may be elegantly rendered by the p. p. ‘cultivated’ (+veredelt+).

Say ‘The principal cultivated native plants are’, etc.

See S. 3, N. 2. I should recommend to repeat the art. before each of the following six nouns.

is a native of, +stammt ~aus~+.