[1] Foolish maiden.
[2] She says _Usted esta_ instead of _tu estas_.
[3] Galicia is the northwestern province of Spain.
[4] Using _Usted_, contraction for _Vuestra merced_; literally, your
grace.
[5] Brigadier-General Rivera's widow, Miguel's step-mother.
[6] _El buen Retiro_, a public park and drive in Madrid, formerly the
pleasure ground of the Spanish kings.
[7] _El reservado del Suizo._
[8] Lady-killers, literally, drivers of cattle.
[9] _Hasta manana_, literally, till morning.
[10] Dollars: _pesos duros_ or _pesos fuertos_ is the full expression.
It contains twenty _reales_.
[11] Twenty-five dollars.
[12] Equivalent to Mr. Such-an-one.
[13] Sweetmeats made of flour, sugar, and rose-water.
[14] Academia de Estado Mayor.
[15] _De tre manera lo se esi ... percurador, porcurador, precurador._
[16] Almost corresponding to our vulgar "son of a gun."
[17] _Pasacalle_; song with guitar accompaniment sung on the street.
[18] _Bonita_, _graciosa_, _elegante_, _encantadora_.
[19] _Tertulia._
[20] All Madrid apartments have a small opening, called _ventanilla_, in
the entrance door.
[21] A word similar in meaning to our "sympathetic," but not quite
synonymous; more akin to "congenial."
[22] Lucia Poblacion, _la generala_ of "Riverita," was the lady to whom
Miguel, when a young man, had been quite too attentive.
[23] _Guindillas_, red peppers.
[24] _Novillada_, bull-driving.
[25] Bull-fighter who uses a long knife.
[26] Little Manuela.
[27] _Cabayero for caballero._
[28] _Onza de oro_, $16.
[29] _Seo morral_; _seo_, vulgar for senor.
[30] Senorito de _bomba_.
[31] A native of Biscay; a Basque.
[32] _Santander_, known to the sailors as St. Andrew's, is a seaport on
the Bay of Biscay; _astillero_ means, originally, a shipyard.
[33] Diminutive of Ana (Anna).
[34] From _cerveceria_, a tavern or alehouse.
[35] Carlos II., _el Hechizado_, reigned over Spain 1665-1700.
[36] Literally, Enamels and Cameos.
[37] The central square in Madrid.
[38] _Rota de la Nunciatura Apostolica_, a supreme ecclesiastical court
of last appeal in Spain, composed of judges nominated by the king and
confirmed by the Pope.
[39] _Ayuntamiento_, municipal council in Spanish towns.
[40] _Diputacion provincial_, district assembly.
[41] Spanish nickname for an old man.
[42] A kind of pulse much affected by the Spanish.
[43] _Chiquirritin_, affectionate diminutive of _chiquetin_, little one.
[44] Civil magistrates, judges or mayors.
[45]
_Ea, ea, ea,_
_iQue gallina tan fea!_
_iComo se sube al palo!_
_iComo se balancea!_
[46] _Lyones_, in Spanish.
[47] In Spanish, _rena_, a big rock; a slang expression.
[48] A Spanish weight of twenty-five pounds.
[49]
_Perro nuevo y perro viejo,
Nunca han hecho buen trebejo._
Literally: young dog and old dog never play together well.
[50] "Barley Square," formerly famous for its executions.
[51] The _ayuntamiento_; consisting of _alcalde_, or mayor, and the
_regidores_, or aldermen.
[52] The collective name of the town or district authorities.
[53] $175.00.
[54] In Spain the _estanquillos_, where snuff and tobacco are sold, are
under special government license.
[55] A skin dressed and lined with pitch, made for carrying wine.
[56] _Prima instancia._
[57] The Madrid Ateneo or Athenaeum, the literary headquarters of Spain.
[58] _Majadero._
[59] The Guipuzcoana, native of the province of Guipuzcoa.
[60] _Falua._
[61] _Casa de socorro._
[62] $300.00.