56-5: =Almería=: cf. note p. 45, 6.
56-6: =a la galera=: _beyond the wagon_.
56-7: =quitarse el sombrero=: cf. note _se la_, p. 4, 6.
56-8: =¿Por qué he de negarlo?=: _why should I deny it_? Cf. note
_había de conocer_, p. 3, 4.
56-9: =andar largo=: _to go far_.
56-10: =eche V. por esa vereda=: _strike into that path_.
57-1: =A ver=: cf. note _a ver_, p. 44, 6.
57-2: =por más señas=: _what is more_ (a formula used in citing an
additional circumstance, detail, or argument).
57-3: =Siéntese V.=: observe that this form may come from _sentar_ as
well as from _sentir_.
57-4: =cigarro de papel=: _cigarette_.
57-5: =Vaya=: cf. note _¡calla!_ p. 31, 5.
57-6: =Delgadillo=: _pretty thin_.
58-1: =echó unas yescas=: _struck a light_ (_yesca_, tinder).
58-2: =Flojillo es=: _it_ (the cigar) _is pretty thin_.
58-3: =Gérgal=: town of southern Spain, near _Almería_.
58-4: =un polaco=: many Poles served under Napoleon. It was expected
that he would restore Poland to a place among the nations. It had been
partitioned between Russia, Austria, and Germany in the latter part of
the eighteenth century.
58-5: =año 23=: cf. p. 51 and note on _Fernando VII_, p. 51, 7.
58-6: =Estará apuntado=: cf. note _no habría andado_, p. 8, 6.
58-7: =rezan=: (lit. _pray_)_ tell, recount_ (colloquialism).
58-8: =se lo cree a puño cerrado=: cf. notes _lo que me digo_, p. 7,
5, and _creáis_, etc., p. 43, 1.
58-9: =tres duros y medio=: a humorous expression, _duro_ (dollar)
equal to 20 _reales_, being used for _score_.
58-10: =mes de San Juan=: i.e. June.
58-11: =el polaco aquel=: (colloquial) _that Pole_.
58-12: =bribonazo=: _great rogue_. The ending _azo_ is often merely
augmentative. Cf. also note _pistoletazo_, p. 18, 3.
58-13: =otro=: Napoleon III, emperor of France (1852-1870).
58-14: =mamelucos de Oriente=: The Mamelukes were a body of militia,
operating in Egypt, under Turkish command. The curate apparently regards
the Turks as a necessary barrier for preventing the Russians from
overflowing Occidental Europe. Some commentators have succeeded in
finding this calamity foretold in the Book of Revelation.
58-15: =Gádor=: cf. note _Gádor_, p. 56, 3.
58-16: =rusos y moscovitas=: These words are synonymous.
58-17: =Constitución=: most of the political activity of Spain,
during the nineteenth century, was expended on the creation and
maintenance of a constitution, in spite of domestic opposition, and even
of foreign intervention. Cf. note _Fernando VII_, p. 51, 7.
58-18: =Fiñana=: a town near _Almería_. Cf. note p. 45, 6.
58-19: =según supe=: cf. note _según que_, p. 55, 5; cf. also note
_supe_, p. 63, 2.
58-20: =llevará=: _must have passed_ (i.e. in Paradise). Cf. note
_llevarían_, p. 6, 2, and note _no habría andado_, p. 8, 6.
59-1: =Alcazaba=: the _cerro de Alcazaba_, a peak of the Sierra
Nevada range, about halfway between the cities of _Granada_ (note 1, 2)
and _Almería_.
59-2: =candil=: an iron _kitchen lamp_ attachable to the wall.
59-3: =llevaba=: cf. note _llevarían_, p. 6, 2.
59-4: =a la media hora=: _after half an hour_.
59-5: =se me ha olvidado=: cf. note, p. 51, 3.
59-6: =en cuanto a=: _as regards_.
59-7: =cómo miraría=: _how he must have viewed_.
59-8: =didon=: a term used as an insulting equivalent for
_Frenchman_, derived from _dis done_ (say!) so frequent in colloquial
French.
59-9: =gabacho=: used as a synonym of the preceding. Properly, it is
applied to natives of the Pyrenean frontier towns, whose dialect is full
of French elements--hence the extension of the term.
60-1: =tengo de costumbre=: _I am accustomed_.
60-2: =picar un cigarro=: _crumble the tobacco for making a
cigarette_.
60-3: =caídos=: _sunken_; hecho: _transformed into_.
60-4: =calle de la Amargura=: cf. note, p. 52, 4.
60-5: =Mí querer morir=: The speech of the Pole is ungrammatical, and
his verbs are all in the infinitive.
60-6: =franchute=: a contemptuous term, synonymous with Frenchman.
60-7: =cayó redondo=: cf. note, p. 9, 3.
60-8: =¡Suba V. ese mulo!=: _fetch up that mule_.
61-1: =¿Dónde va V.?=: Properly _dónde_ is used after verbs of rest,
and _adónde_ after verbs of motion.
61-2: =judío=: cf. note _Por judío_, p. 33, 11.
61-3: =Otro=: cf. note _a otro_, p. 10, 1.
61-4: =el que más=: (sc. _ama_).
61-5: =cuidado con lo que me dices=: _be careful what you say to
me_.
61-6: =rompo la crisma=: cf. note _me matan_, p. 3, 1. =crisma=:
(lit. _chrism_, holy oil used in the sacrament of baptism) _head_.
61-7: =a la muerte=: _muerte_, being personified, takes the
preposition _a_. Cf. lines 26 and 28 above.
62-1: =si reflexionarais en que=: _if you think of (the fact) that_.
Verbs of _thinking_ are followed by the preposition _en_.
62-2: =será un quinto=: _is probably a conscript_. Cf. note _no
habría andado_, p. 8, 6.
62-3: =¡que diablo!=: _why, surely_! The expression has the value of
a mere interjection.
62-4: =Batíos=: cf. note _llevaos_, p. 30, 5.
62-5: =que sea=: cf. note _¡Que muera!_ p. 3, 6.
62-6: =no seáis=: cf. note _no seas_, p. 6, 7.
62-7: =¡Basta de letanías!=: _enough of talk, or moralizing_! (lit.
_litanies_).
62-8: =¿qué hacemos?=: cf. note _me matan_, p. 3, 1.
63-1: =estaba malo=: _I was sick_. Note the different value of _ser
malo_, to be bad, wicked.
63-2: =supe=: _I learned_ (a frequent value of the preterite of
_saber_).
64-1: =fué a parar nada menos que a Suecia=: _drifted into no less
remote a place than Sweden_.
64-2: =Marqués de la Romana=: a Spanish patriot and general, whom
Napoleon sent with 15,000 Spaniards to Denmark. When Spain clashed with
Napoleon (1808) he reëmbarked most of his troops and returned to fight
against him.
64-3: =tomé de ordenanza a Risas=: _I took Risas along as my
orderly_.
64-4: =miedo cerval=: _mortal fear (cerval_, adj. from _ciervo_,
deer, stag).
64-5: =Polonia=: Poland.
64-6: =tal=: is occasionally used for _tal cosa_, i.e. as a sort of
neuter. Cf. note _ni es tal tierra_, p. 68, 1.
64-7: =espirituosas=: cf. note _estupefacto_, p. 9, 1.
64-8: =ora... ora=: _either... or_.
64-9: =guerra de España=: cf. note _Guerra de la Independencia_, p.
55, 3.
64-10: =Varsovia=: _Warsaw_, the largest city and former capital of
Poland.
64-11: =sin perjuicio de que... saliese=: _without preventing his
setting out_.
64-12: =a las pocas horas de haber echado a andar=: _a few hours
after starting_. Cf. note _a la media hora_, p. 59, 4. _Echar a_,
followed by an infinitive, means to begin, to set about. Hence _echar a
andar_, to begin to march or go, etc.
64-13: =de lo más singular=: an idiomatic substitution of the
singular for the plural.
65-1: =aquí=: after _de aquí (hence)_ supply some verb like
_resultó_.
65-2: =el que... ella se brindara=: _que ella se brindara_ is
treated as a substantive clause, which _el_ precedes as it would a mere
noun.
65-3: =por creer=: _because he believed_.
65-4: =la tal efigie=: (familiar style) _this (same) portrait_.
65-5: =debió de probar=: _must have proved_. Cf. Idiomatic
Commentary, 59.
66-1: =Es cuanto sé=: cf. note _que cuanto veíamos_, p. 48, 1.
66-2: =Vive Dios que=: as God lives. Cf. note _como que no_, p. 14,
1.
67-1: =El Libro Talonario=: a book of checks, receipts, etc., in
which duplicate stubs remain as records of transactions.
67-2: =bahía de Cádiz=: Cádiz, the ancient _Gades_, reputed 300 years
older than Rome itself, a large seaport of southwestern Spain, on the
Atlantic, a little northwest of Gibraltar. It is situated on a narrow
promontory forming the outer wall of the bay (_bahía_) of Cádiz.
67-3: =con ser la menor=: _in spite of being the smallest_.
67-4: =a título de Duque de Arcos=: _in his right as Duke of Arcos_.
67-5: =el tío Buscabeatas=: _tío_ is familiarly used as a generic
term applied to old men. Cf. note on _papá abuelo_, p. 15, 5.
67-6: =Huelva=: a seaport a little northwest of _Cádiz_.
67-7: =Sevilla=: the most brilliant and characteristic city of
southern Spain, situated in _Andalucía_, toward the mouth of the
_Guadalquivir_.
67-8: =por lo que=: _(for which) wherefore_. For relative use of _lo
que_ cf. note _por el que_, p. 49, 1.
67-9: =Andalucía la Baja=: _lower Andalusia_, the southwest portion
bordering on the Atlantic.
67-10: =roteños=: _natives of Rota_.
67-11: =calabaceros... tomateros=: _retailers of pumpkins and
tomatoes_.
68-1: =ni es tal tierra=: _nor is this (soil) really soil_. For _tal_
neuter cf. note _tal_, p. 64, 6.
68-2: =ni Cristo que lo fundó=: render freely _far from it_.
68-3: =Vesubio=: Mt. Vesuvius.
68-4: =ni=: _not even_.
68-5: =ora... ora=: _now... now_. Cf. p. 64, line 16, and note 8,
for a variant usage.
68-6: =humus=: (Latin) _soil_.
68-7: =del vuelo de un plato chico=: _of the size of a small plate_.
68-8: =a tal mata=: _to this or that plant_.
69-1: =se dan=: _they strike_.
69-2: =la barba=: _their chins_. For the article cf. note _se la_, p.
4, 6.
69-3: =y era que=: _and (the fact) was that_.
69-4: =llevaba=: cf. note _llevarían_, p. 6, 2.
69-5: =tamañas como=: _as big as_. The usual _tan_ of comparisons of
equality is implicit in the first syllable of _tamaños_ (from the Latin
_tam magnas_).
69-6: =pasábase=: cf. note _lo que me digo_, p. 7. 5.
70-1: =se las coma=: cf. note _lo que me digo_, p. 7. 5.
70-2: =¡Lástima=: _it's a pity_!
70-3: =¿Qué he de hacer?=: _what am I to do_? Cf. note _no había de
conocer_, p. 3, 4.
70-4: =salir de ellas=: _sell them_.
70-5: =cuánto sería=: _how great must have been_. Cf. note _no habría
andado_, p. 8, 6. Cf. also line 25 below.
70-6: =Para ahorrarme de razones=: _to save words_, i.e. _to be
brief_.
70-7: =Kemble=: (John Philip) a great English tragedian (1757-1823).
70-8: =¡si te encuentro!:= _vide_ Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 3,
line 47 (Globe edition).
70-9: =por otra parte:= (_on the other hand_) _moreover_.
70-10: =debió de robármelas=: cf. note _debió de probar_, p. 65, 5.