NOTES
[1] Written in 1884. This story is used by permission of and special arrangement with the Charles Scribner's Sons Company, Publishers.
[2] 237:1 windfalls. Unexpected gains.
[3] 237:3 dividend. His knowledge a business asset that draws interest.
[4] 241:22 skewer-like. Like a wooden pin now used to fasten meat.
[5] 242:11 leaguer. Place besieged with shadows.
[6] 242:27 Time was that when the brains were out. See Macbeth, Act III, sc. 4, line 78.
[7] 243:16 iteration. Repetition.
[8] 246:25 railleries. Merry jesting or ridicule.
[9] 247:7 garishly. A blinding, gaudy effect.
[10] 247:7 Brownrigg. A notorious murderess living in England in the middle of the eighteenth century. She was hanged and her skeleton is still preserved.
[11] 247:8 Mannings. Marie Manning and her husband murdered a former suitor. They were given, a death sentence.
[12] 247:9 Thurtell. A gambler who quarrelled with Weare and killed him after he had professed peace. He designed his own gallows.
[13] 247:25 horologist. One who makes timepieces.
[14] 249:27 scission. A cleaving or a dividing.
[15] 250:25 Sheraton. Next to Chippendale the greatest furniture designer and cabinet-maker.
[16] 250:25 marquetry. An inlay of some thin material in the surface of a piece of furniture or other object.
[17] 251:23 Jacobean. Pertaining to the time of James I of England.
[18] 253:12 travesty. A grotesque imitation.
[19] 254:3 sophistry. Methods of the Greek sophists.
[20] 254:29 efficacy. Effective energy.
[21] 255:5 sow tares, etc. See Matthew XII, 24-30.
[22] 255:29 category. A class, condition, or predicament.
[23] 256:14 hurtling. Rushing headlong or confusedly.
[24] 280:10 dislimned. Erased or effaced.