=129= 20 =perezca=, etc.:  ‘die and be born again.’

=129= 25 =en 1848=:  cf. n. on p. 125, l. 20.

=129= 26 =en puertas=:  i.e. on police duty.

=130= 3 =maldicion de Dios=:  cf. “=ser bendicion de Dios= (figurative and colloquial phrase) be very abundant”, Academy.

=130= 16 =de que pie cojea=:  i.e. what really ails it.

=130= 19 =ello es=:  R. 302; K. 188, a; C. 206, 2.

=131= 2 =Como se van atando cabos=:  lit. ‘how ends go getting tied!’ i.e. ‘how things do fit together (in one’s mind)!’ Cf. vocabulary under =atar=.

=131= 20 =sueltas=:  ‘from time to time,’ ‘now and then’ (lit. ’disconnected’).

=131= 23 =desperezandose=:  the Academy defines this as stretching and twisting in order to shake off either =pereza= (in the sense “repugnance to rising from one’s bed or seat”) or the numbness of a sleepy limb.

=131= 31 =ya no se estilan=:  ‘are no longer good form.’

=132= 14 =Al mirar=:  ‘when she looked.’

=133= 5 =para=:  from =parar=.

=133= 19 =cinco=:  the Madrid edition has =cincos=.

=136= 18 =te confieso=, etc.:  ‘confess to you—­Yes, I have indeed,’ etc.

=136= 25 =cada vez=:  ‘all the time.’

=136= 28 =brios=:  ‘spirit.’

=138= 22 =Que se acabo todo=:  ‘it’s all over.’  For use of =que= cf.  R. 1421.  For tense of =acabo= cf. n. on p. 40, l. 1.

=139= 17 =todo lo=:  ‘everything.’  Cf. n. on p. 32, l. 17.

=139= 27 =con perfecta conciencia de si misma=:  ’thoroughly self-conscious.’

=140= 9 =olor de infalibilidad=:  a variation of the traditional phrase =olor de santidad=, ‘odor of sanctity,’ which arose from the belief formerly current that the dead body of a saintly person emits a sweet smell.

=141= 3 =adocenados=:  ‘common,’ ‘vulgar’ (derived from =docena=, and applied to what is reckoned by dozens, not individually).

=141= 10 =acabo=:  cf. n. on p. 40, l. 1.

=141= 23 =patetica=:  not ‘pathetic.’

=141= 34 =entre usted y yo=:  cf. n. on p. 46, l. 19.

=142= 30 =Guardia civil=:  cf. n. on p. 9, l. 29.

=143= 19 =alzado la mano a=:  ‘"lifted his hand” against,’ i.e. struck.

=143= 22 =montado=:  ‘equipped,’ ‘furnished’ (Gallicism = Fr. monte).  The word lends itself easily, however, to the play on words involved in the succeeding phrases, =a la altura, a la bajeza=, because from the true Spanish =montar= it is strongly colored with the meaning ‘ascend’ or ‘cause to ascend.’

=143= 29 =si bien=:  this phrase introduces a fact which cannot be denied, but insists that that fact does not alter the main point.  Cf. p. 124, l. 21.

=144= 10 =a partir un confite=:  ‘hail-fellow-well-met.’  The dictionary says:  “=morder en un confite=, of two or more persons, have great friendship or intimacy”; “=estar a partir un pinon con=, be entirely at one with.”