[26] A very bad rhyme in the original.
[27] Plum-Pudding.
[28] The old gunsmith contrives to say "scandal."
[29] Literally, "The Half-Dreamer."
[30] The usual expression for "join our Church."
[31] In the Catacombs at Kieff are a number of chrism-exuding skulls.
[32] He probably means a garment like the _sarafan_, composed of
many straight breadths gathered into a narrow band at the arm-pits,
and suspended by straps over shoulders; or the ancient Russian gown,
without gathers, cut with gores from neck to heel. What he manages to
say is, that they wear lace gowns--or something approximating that.