=64= 1 =Si no=:  elliptical expression very common in colloquial Spanish, ‘otherwise,’ ‘if you don’t think so.’

=64= 20 =alguno=:  i.e. =negocio=.

=64= 23 =papel sellado=:  legal documents are required to bear a revenue stamp.

=65= 10 =tejares=:  ‘brickyards,’ where tiles (=tejas=), sun-dried bricks (=adobes=), and burnt bricks (=ladrillos=) are made.

=65= 16 =superior=:  i.e. higher up the stream.

=65= 23 =linderos=:  cf. n. on p. 7, l. 6.

=66= 1 =Caco=:  ‘Cacus,’ robber giant, son of Vulcan, who lived in a cave of the Aventine Hill, and who was killed by Hercules for stealing from him the oxen of Geryon (cf.  Vergil, Aen. VIII, 193 ff.).

=66= 5 =prescripcion=:  by Justinian’s code, twenty years’ adverse possession of an absent person’s real estate makes the occupant the owner.

=66= 9 =lo que es eso=:  ‘as for that.’

=66= 13 =juicio de conciliacion=:  ‘reconciliation hearing.’  The Spanish law requires that before actual trial of a civil cause the parties shall try, in open court, to arrive at a friendly settlement of their differences.

=67= 6 =No vale la pena=:  ‘it’s not worth while,’ vague phrase used in politely deprecating an apology (Fr. ce n’est pas la peine).

=68= 11 =pegan la hebra=:  ‘get the thread tied’ (get started in chatting).

=68= 31 =_Madrid_=:  the pronunciation of final =d= like =z= (Eng. th in teeth) is either provincialism or affectation.  It is the single point on which the pronunciation of well-bred Castilians is not accepted as standard.

=68= 34 =muy relacionada en la Corte=:  ’widely acquainted at the capital.’

=69= 4 =Muley-Abbas=:  Moorish prince, brother of the Emperor of Morocco, who visited Spain soon after the war between Spain and Morocco (1859-1860) was ended.

=69= 7 =el 60=:  i.e. =el ano 1860=.

=69= 10 =moreria=:  this quaint word is common in the Spanish popular ballads (=romances=) both for the land of the Moors and for the Moors themselves.  Galdos uses it, of course, with a touch of humor.

=69= 13 =que se salia=, etc.:  (seemingly) ’bursting out of himself through being too big to go in his own skin.’

=69= 15 =Procedia=, etc.:  ‘he was a product of the exclaustration’; i.e. a monk who had turned priest at the time of the confiscation of the monasteries by the Spanish government (1835).

=69= 24 =la Fama=, etc.:  cf.  Vergil, Aen. IV, 174 ff.

=69= 33 =vacia=:  that is, owing to the removal of his great bulk.

=70= 10 =Por mas que=:  R. 899.

=70= 23 =_Augusto Nicolas_=:  imaginary author or book.

=70= 25 =que pareces=:  ellipsis for =tan cargado que pareces=.

=70= 34 =_Concilios_=:  there are four or five voluminous histories of the councils of the Church, with the texts of their decisions; the title is Collection of Councils, with variations.  In any one of these, Vol. 3 might be presumed to belong to the early part of the Middle Ages.