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Padre=: _holy Father_, i.e. _the Pope_, while _Padre
Santo_ is one of the Fathers of the church, as Saint Augustine, etc.,--a
distinction not always observed,--cf. line 22.
53-2: =Lo de menos=: _a far less important matter_.
53-3: =Vive le Pape=: (French) _long live the Pope_.
54-1: =la orden=: cf. note _orden_, p. 39, 1.
54-2: =Chateaubriand= (1768-1848): a great French writer. He chose to
be a kind of official paladin of Catholicism.
54-3: =del hacha=: cf. note _al ave_, p. 25, 3.
55-1: =echar por tierra=: _throw to the ground_.
55-2: =Don Quijote, Sancho Panza=: the would-be knight errant and his
squire, the chief figures of Cervantes' immortal story of Don Quixote,
published in 1605. The passage is from part II, cap. XLII, _sub fine_.
55-3: =Guerra de la Independencia=: (1808-1814): the war waged
against Napoleon, who invaded Spain in 1808.
55-4: =ha de transigir=: _must compromise_. Cf. note _habia de
conocer_, p. 3, 4.
55-5: =segun que=: nearly always _segun_ is followed by the verb
without the intervening _que_.
55-6: =muy de cerca=: _very intimately_.
56-1: =abuelo=: cf. note _papa abuelo_, p. 15, 5.
56-2: =Linares=: mining town near _Almeria_.
56-3: =Gador=: mining town near _Almeria_.
56-4: =Usted ira=: _and you are going_--
56-5: =Almeria=: 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 que he de negarlo?=: _why should I deny it_? Cf. note
_habia 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 mas senas=: _what is more_ (a formula used in citing an
additional circumstance, detail, or argument).
57-3: =Sientese 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 _icalla!_ p. 31, 5.
57-6: =Delgadillo=: _pretty thin_.
58-1: =echo unas yescas=: _struck a light_ (_yesca_, tinder).
58-2: =Flojillo es=: _it_ (the cigar) _is pretty thin_.
58-3: =Gergal=: town of southern Spain, near _Almeria_.
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: =ano 23=: cf. p. 51 and note on
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