1. When the master and mistress come home, the cook gets dinner
ready. 2. The man[1] puts up the curtains, sweeps the rooms, dusts
thefurniture, the tables, armchairs, and sofas. 3. «There's the bell!
It isthey!» «Nonsense, it is not yet twelve.» «Yes[2], it is they. I
know master's ring.» 4. What a lot of bandboxes and valises they have!
5. When we get home again after a trip, we find on the table all the
letters, visiting-cards, and newspapers that have come for us while we
were away. 6. People do not return stouter when they have not had
a pleasant trip. 7. «May I relieve you of your parcels?»--«Why,
certainly!» 8. We owe him a call: he came every day to inquire when we
should be back, and is to call again to-day.
[1: domestique; m.]
[2: Si.]
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