ra=: 'he must be going.'

=212= 4 =el pueblo se acaba=: 'the town ends,' i.e. we are coming to the
last houses.

=212= 21 =bruto=: 'an idiot.'

=213= 11 =quinque=: from the French manufacturer Quinquet, who first
made such lamps on a considerable scale. The inventor was a Swiss
chemist and physicist named Argant or Argand (1755-1803); hence these
lamps are generally known in English as Argand lamps.

=213= 19 =acicalarse=: 'prinking.'

=213= 25 =despejada=: 'open.'

=214= 3 =allegados=: the Academy defines this word by =pariente=
('relative,' the same word by which it defines =deudo=) and =parcial=;
and it defines a colloquial figurative sense of =pariente= by "allegado,
semejante o parecido."

=215= 8 =un Limbo prematuro=: 'a Limbo before the time.' Cf. n. on p.
118, l. 17.

=215= 9 =cuidan bien=: this is normal Spanish for 'take good care,'
declaratively. May it be a misprint of the Madrid edition for =cuiden
bien=, to be interpreted 'let them take good care'? In that case the
order of words would be hardly the most usual; but it is not easy
otherwise to reconcile the sentence with the general course of the
thought in this passage.

=218= 15 =veros=: 'to see each other.'

=220= =un su amigo=: 'a friend of his.'

=220= 5 =virtuosisimo=: this word is used in the sense of the Italian
_virtuoso_, a connoisseur, an appreciative and successful collector. The
ending =-isimo= is here not merely intensive but very nearly true
superlative; not 'extremely' but 'supremely.'

=220= 6 =emblema=: 'crest'; the word =creston= appears to mean not the
heraldic device but the part of the helmet over which the device rises.
=Emblema= is defined as meaning a symbol accompanied by a motto.

=220= 7 =rabillo=: this word must here mean a serif, but is probably not
a technical term.

=222= 20 =le impondra a usted=: 'will advise you.'

=224= 23 =nos=: ethical dative. R. 323; K. 231; C. 204.

=224= 26 =dude=: sc. =usted=, unless it is a misprint for =dudo=.

=224= 31 =San Baudilio de Llobregat=: a small town, commonly called San
Boy, on the river Llobregat. It is six miles west of Barcelona. A large
and well-administered private insane asylum is situated there.

=225= 5 =pliegos=: 'sheets' (sixteen pages each if the book is octavo).

=225= 25 =Albricias, albricias=: 'joy, joy!' (lit. a reward paid to the
bringer of good tidings).

=226= 22 =acaparada=: 'monopolized,' 'beguiled.' This verb (from Fr.
_accaparer_, to 'corn