etir en poder y en Estados con el, pero ya desde ese
tiempo se observan (are observed)[70] los germenes de la decadencia que
se verifico despues.

12. Alfonso XIII actual rey de Espana es un monarca ilustrado y
constitucional.

13. La nueva Espana espera mucho de el.

14. El primero y el quince de cada (each) mes, la Compania efectua
(effects) sus pagos.

15. Hoy estamos a (to-day is) cinco de Junio de 1911.

[Footnote 70: The verb with SE is _reflexive_ or _passive_: se da, _it
gives itself_ or _it is given_; se observan, _they observe themselves_
or _are observed_.]

EXERCISE 2 (14).

Translate into Spanish--

1. I shall be compelled (me vere obligado a) to abandon this
undertaking. It is too difficult.

2. We received a consignment of rice, but the price demanded (pedido),
2-15/16d. a lb., is too dear; we shall never be able (nunca podremos) to
get it; a better quality (calidad), whiter and stouter, was placed at
2-29/32d. but (solo) a few days ago (hace algunos dias).

3. If you cannot sell your plain and figured drills at the figures
quoted it will be necessary to abate the price.

4. I shall accept those bleached linens subject to an abatement of 5 per
cent.

5. We shall consult our partners; meanwhile let us leave (dejemos)[71]
the matter in abeyance (en suspenso).

6. He has chosen several designs (disenos, dibujos) for his lot of
prints, but he finds that three of them are wrong (estan equivocados).

7. Some firms always give wrong (falsos, inexactos) weights in their
declarations.

8. He ordered the wrong article (un ... por otro).

9. You are wrong (V. se equivoca), it is the right (justo, exacto)
article.

10. This cloth is finished on the wrong side (al reves).

11. We received your favour (su atenta) of 10th instant (del corriente),
enclosing copy of your previous letter 1st ult. (p deg., p deg..) and have taken
note of its contents.

12. By next mail (mala) we shall send you all the details required (que
Vs. necesitan).

[Footnote 71: The Imperative Mood is like the Pres. Subj., except in the
2nd Person.]

LESSON VIII.
(Leccion octava.)

PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

We shall divide the Personal Pronouns into Subject Pronouns and Object
Pronouns.[72]

[Footnote 72: Grammarians often give the names--
Nominative case for the Subject pronouns