Feminine of Adjectives (S$ 186, 187 1 and 2).

EXERCISE 23.

1. My friend is going to marry an English (lady). 2. Are widows still burned [active] in India? 3. My sister is active, frank, and diligent; in a word she is happy. 4. Were not those flowers already faded when they were gathered? 5. That tree is dry; consequently all its branches are dry also. 6. The Turkish navy was attacked by twenty Greek vessels. 7. The Greek letters are rather difficult. 8. My neighbour has white hair and a white beard, but his son has red hair and a red beard. 9. Were not those girls false and wicked? No, sir, they have always been frank and gentle. We do not like [the] ambiguous2 words.1 12. The Frankish language is spoken [reflect.] in Asia Miror. 13. Are not those things superfluous? 14. My French mistress was very zealous and cheerful.

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15. Our fortresses were well provided, and happily they were also well defended.

1. Do you not see that beautiful child yonder who has such bright eyes, a face so fresh and amiable, and who speaks in [de] a manner so unaffected? 2. Why then are you so anxious, Miss? 3. A handsome [beau] man; handsome men. 4. The bench under that fine beechtree is my favourite place. 5. The public squares of our town are large, but they are not regular. 6. Most Turkish towns have also Christian Churches. 7. My mother's secret2 expectation1 has been deceived. 8. Did you hear the anxious questions of that good mother who is always thinking of her favourite daughter ?1 9. Your room is long, but it is rather low. 10. We saw [pret. indf.] to-day a poor dumb woman.' II. She is old and insane. 12. How are you, my old friend? 13. I gave him a plain2 answer.1 14. Some of those young ladies are rather malicious [malin].

Feminine of Adjectives (§ 187 7-19).

EXERCISE 25.

1. Is not [the] nature a benefactress as wise as (she is) powerful? 2. Jesus pardoned the sinner [f.]. 3. Poetesses are bad housekeepers. 4. Miss Schurmann, born at Cologne, was (a) painter, (a) musician, (a) sculptor, (a) philosopher, and even (a) theologian. 5. The empress Maria-Theresa was a wise and3 courteous4 princess. 6. The goddess Diana is the protectress of [the] huntsmen. 7. The actors and actresses of our theatre have played before the king. 8. Mme de Staël has been one of the greatest authors of [the] modern2 times. 9. Miss P. has been reader to [= of] [the] Queen Anne. 10. You are a liar, my daughter. II. Our cat [f], the [= this] thief, took our gardener's [f.] meat. 12. The fortune-teller [f.] said to the peasant (woman): "Your daughter will be very pretty, very graceful, very witty; but as I must tell you all, a little flattering, malicious [malin], and [an] informer; she will be unaffected [naïf], and pious; but also proud and cowardly; she will insinuate herself into the good graces of a foreign2 empress, who will make her (a) duchess and (the) governess of her children. 13. That sovereign [f.]

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will be treacherous, ambitious, and even cruel'; but your daughter will bring about in her a complete2 change; she will make her not only better and more gentle, but even superior to the former queens." 14.

* Translate to make, followed by an Adjective, by rendre.

When she had finished her discourse, an old lady quite broken down, who had kept herself quiet, and [who] had been (a) witness of all she had said, began to speak, and said: "My dear prophetess, you are only an impudent spreader of falsehoods, and you are going to be arrested for having infringed the express prohibition 1, which has been made to you by the local authority, to foretell the future."

Plural of Adjectives (S$ 188, 189).

EXERCISE 26.

1. What fatal events! 2. He is a loyal man; they have, however, badly rewarded his loyal services. 3. Moral precepts, local usages, liberal principles, magnificent agricultural estates,' these are the things

that first strike1 the visitor. 4. The inhabitants of the principal towns received us with almost filial3 respect.1 5. Although little sentimental, we have been deeply touched by [de] their friendly proceedings. 6. The Oriental nations are less civilised than the Occidental (nations). 7. For the next lesson' you must learn the pronominal verbs. 8. The blue eyes of that child are like a mirror of his soul. 9. Young men [gens], strangely dressed in their fathers', if not their grandfathers', wedding-coats, were holding paschal tapers whilst* they intonated pastoral songs. 10. In Egypt you will find colossal monuments. II. Are those judges impartial? 12. Mothers are not always impartial.

1. The Greeks thought that their gods were allpowerful. 2. These flowers are freshly gathered. 3. That girl has nut-brown hair [plur.]. 4. Did you not buy straw-coloured gloves? 5. We have eaten freshly-plucked fruits. 6. Those birds have greyish-brown2 feathers.1

* See First Exercise Book, pp. 55, 57.

+ principe, m. principi-um, n.

cierge, m.

cere-us, -a, -um