[212] Fire.
[213] Cat for hare.
[214] In the mouth of fame.
[215] Where envy reigns, there virtue cannot live.
The lines of Burns,
“O wad some pow’r, the giftie gie us,
To see oursels as others see us!”
often occurred to me in the course of Señor Blas’s story.
[216] Of extracting the teeth from one who has been hanged.
[217] Old crony.
[218] Pépé, short for Josef.—Alamin, faithful.