Marianela

by Benito Pérez Galdós

Footnotes:

[1] "Es tan linda su boca que no pide."

[2] A Spanish silver coin, equal in value to the U. S. dollar.

[3] A silver coin containing two reales.

[4] The copper piece is a cuarto. A real contains 34 maravedis and is worth about the same as the U. S. dime. The smallest Spanish coin is the maravedi. Four maravedis make a cuarto.

[5] Trunkmaker's street.

[ [6] In some provinces the rector of a parish.

[ [7] The point of this passage in the original is the misuse of Spanish words and the introduction of others which are not Spanish. Thus Hidalgo means a nobleman; and Kermesas, Fr., Kermesse, Dutch, Kermis, is a name for a fair peculiar to Holland and Belgium.