Part 83

Here +Thronansprüche+.

According to the two rules in §§ 28 and 30 of the Appendix, the Perfect of the Subjunctive Mood is to be used in this and the following clause. The two clauses, however, can be joined by omitting the second conjunction ‘that’ and the copula ‘had been’ of the first clause. Turn ‘to disregard’ by +nicht anerkennen+; the words ‘by — Paris’ may be briefly rendered by +von den Parisern+, which place immediately after the conjunction ‘and’.

‘to bury’, here = to veil, +umhüllen+; the prep. ‘in’ must then be rendered by +mit+.

is high = blows violently.

since the copula ‘is’ was changed into another verb in the previous clause, it must be inserted here.

The literal version of this clause would not read well. I propose to use the following construction: it is (Comp. N. 19) for the moment impossible to embark.

runaways = fugitives.

is with them, +ist ihnen hold+ (propitious).

to escape capture, +der Verhaftung entgehen+; to put to sea, +in die See stechen+.

+glücklich+; ‘shores’, here +Gestade+.

+Inzwischen+, which place after the copula ‘has’. The verb ‘to happen’ is conjugated with +sein+.

to give way = to yield, conj. with +sein+; handful, +Häuflein+.

+Aufruhr+ m.; rioter, +Aufrührer+.

but = only; individuals = persons.

a particle of = a little.

+deren wir schon erwähnten.+

All the others in the city.

were — King = ‘were just as faithless towards themselves as they were towards the King’, and insert the grammatical subject +es+ after the pronoun ‘they’.—=The grammatical subject +es+ is frequently employed for emphasizing the real subject or to give more tone and like to the construction=; as—+Es sprach die Leidenschaft aus seinen Zügen.+ It is, moreover, used with all impersonal verbs; as—+es friert+, +es donnert+, +es giebt+, +es ist+.

Section 105.

THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848.

Princes, peers, soldiers, and statesmen were all sneaking in hiding places whilst the capital was made over to the mercy of a few dozen incendiaries. The daughter-in-law, seeing (S. 55, N. 1) the King depart, carries her child to the Chamber of Deputies, and there, with womanly courage and queenly dignity, vindicates his rights. Her friends entreat her to withdraw. Firm in her purpose, she does not move an inch. She attempts to speak, but is interrupted; and he who interrupts is himself silenced by an armed mob that pours into the hall. The Duchess is forced away, and in that terrible extremity is separated from her son. The child is seized by (S. 106, N. 23) a rough hand, which is strong enough to strike, but generous enough to save. The boy is brought to his mother, and mother and son pass from asylum to asylum, chased by scythes, sabres, muskets, and, worse than all, the bloody passions of an infuriated “canaille”. For four days they creep into hiding places; on the fifth day they are beyond the frontier.

The Peers of France were called ‘Pairs’, which term is used in German, the final +s+ being pronounced.

to sneak into hiding places, +in den Winkel kriechen+.

was made over = was left (+überlas´sen+), with the dat. Construe the sentence after the following model:—+Die Festung wurde einer kleinen Anzahl Soldaten auf Gnade oder Ungnade überlassen.+

+davon´reisen.+ Comp. App. § 19.

+führen+, before which the subjective pronoun ‘she’ must be supplied.

+Deputiertenkammer+, f.

and — rights = where she vindicates his rights with, etc.