Note 20 — PREMIER ÉPISODE
Reading edition · Edition 2
15 21 vous apparaissait d'une hauteur! 'was a wonderful thing indeed!' Vous is the common ethical dative, to be omitted in translation, cf.the Shakespearean "Knock me that door!" and "There's perfection for you!' "--D'une hauteur! suppression for emphasis far more frequent in French than in English, cf. 30 17, 49 25 Note the play on the words haut, Hauteur 14 5 n'entendait ... oreille-là. i.e. "didn't see it in that light".