=211= 28 =Ira=:  ‘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 ‘corner’ a commodity in the market, to ‘seize upon’ a thing, to ‘sway’ voters by demagogic methods) was condemned as a Gallicism in the middle of the nineteenth century, but is now fully accepted in Spanish.  It must not be confounded with the older but probably now less common verb =acaparrar=, whose meaning is entirely different.