[82.] Hase; an enclitic object pronoun may be appended to the verb when it stands at the head of a sentence or phrase, and, less often, in other positions.
[83.] no se me escapa; compare the note above on quitaba. Here the desire for vivid expression has gone a step farther, and we have the present indicative replacing the perfect conditional.
[137.] las de González, the González ladies.
[157.] a eso voy, I'm coming to that.
[241.] ¡Qué paso lleva...! How fast he goes...!
[248.] no se dejará ahorcar por...: i.e., he would not stick at putting up a million pesetas if they were needed to save him from the gallows.
[250.] Hará; future of probability: I suppose he makes.
[254.] a retro; a legal term for a particular kind of conveyance, often used in Spain as a usurer's device, and best explained by an example. A house-owner wishes to raise money by giving a mortgage on his house. But if he is in straits, the lender may refuse to accept the mortgage as security, and demand a bill of sale of it, which contains a clause providing that the original owner may buy it back within a certain time (not over four years, unless more are stipulated in the deed, and never more than ten). This is called venta con pacto de retro, 'sale subject to redemption.' It saves the usurer the trouble of going to law to eject the borrower, and enables the former to charge enormous rates of interest under the guise of a sale. See Adolfo Posada, El derecho usual, p. 251.
[259.] Será; see note to Hará, [line 250.]
[334-335.] ¡Si está aquí, en el patio! Why, here she is, in the court! Observe the use of si, which has no connection with the word meaning 'yes'; this is the conjunction 'if,' and the main clause of the condition is not expressed. In the present case, it might be ¿por qué buscarla?