=32= 21 =empaque=:  word used familiarly to indicate the traits of a person that produce an impression at first sight, whether good or bad.

=32= 24 =tiran a=:  ‘verge upon.’

=33= 2 =debia de ser=:  R. 1005, 2, rem.

=33= 10 =_buquinista_=:  italicized as not Spanish but Hispanicized French. Bouquiniste is properly ‘second-hand bookseller,’ but the meaning here may be ‘book-collector.’  A bouquin is a conspicuously old book.

=34= 5 =merienda=:  ‘picnic.’

=34= 22 =Mientras mas, mejor=:  ‘the longer the better.’

=34= 34 =acompanara usted=, etc.:  i.e. by eating our Lenten fare.

=35= 12 =Lopez de Berganza=:  this name, like many others of authors and books in the remainder of the story, is purely imaginary.

=35= 15 =tenga=:  cf.  R. 914 and n. on p. 7, l. 21.

=35= 16 =de hierro=:  probably corrugated iron, which was one of the world’s recent and valued inventions about the time when Dona Perfecta was written.

=35= 25 =la octava=:  i.e. one in addition to the traditional seven.

=35= 26 =en buen hora=:  originally this meant ‘at an auspicious time.’  It is now a colloquial, often ironical, phrase of acquiescence or approval.

=36= 3 =donde quiera=:  cf.  R. 896; K. 326; C. 197.

=36= 19 =_maria ac terras, caelumque profundum_=:  Vergil (Aen. I, 58 f.) says that if Aeolus did not hold the winds in control, they

     Maria ac terras caelumque profundum
     Quippe ferant rapidi secum verrantque per auras.

=36= 23 =gusanera=:  strictly defined as a place where worms breed; apparently meant here as a mass of worms, with reference to the look of the surface of the brain, and doubtless with a pun on the colloquial use of =gusanera= for that reservoir of “maggots” (crotchets) whose contents come out when you touch upon a man’s hobby.

=36= 24 =daba paso a=:  ‘sent down.’

=37= 14 =martillazos=:  for force of termination =-azo= cf.  R. 1273 (p. 499); K. 765, b, rem.; C. 132, 4, b.  Cf. n. on p. 90, l. 29.

=37= 30 =cazadora traviesa=:  like Diana.

=37= 31 =cochero emperegilado y vagabundo=:  like Phaethon.

=37= 34 =Mercurio=:  the god of commerce.—­=Manzanedo=:  the firm of Manzanedo is a leading Madrid banking house.

=38= 1 =barbilampino=:  Spaniards regard abundance of hair as an evidence of force.  The allusion is to the well-known frail look of Count von Moltke.

=38= 6 =a la electricidad le da la gana=:  ’electricity takes the notion.’  The subject of =da= is =gana=; cf. the plural form p. 82, l. 11.  This construction of =dar= is most common in expressions of desire, whim, etc., with words like =gusto, ventolera=, and the like.  The Spanish Academy says that =da la gana= is an uncultured colloquialism, but does not object to this use of =dar= with other words.