[282]: One weeps, one cries, one sighs, one lies, one raves, one kills, one dies,—in fine, one gives himself to all the devils, in order to have his angel.—Tr.
[283]: As we say pea-soup, vermicelli-soup.
[284]: Referring to the one whose marriage to the Senior Parson's daughter Victor witnessed that night from his window.—Tr.
[285]: See note to page 194.—Tr.
[286]: Of course, Procrustes.—Tr.
[287]: Cheeks.—Tr.
[288]: The God of sleep was attended by three beings: Phantasus, who could change himself only into lifeless things; Phobetor, who could assume and conjure up all animal forms; and Moropheus, who could, all human forms. Metamorph. Lib. II. Fab. 10.
[289]: Painter's colics.—Tr.
[290]: "Seed to the sower and bread to the eater." (Isaiah.)—Tr.
[291]: Nor yet by a luxury, whose magnitude one exaggerates in comparing their outlays with our income, and which injured them only in this way, that they inherited the nations like East Indian cousins. It was that of a cobbler who has won the highest prize in the lottery; it was the squandering of a soldier after the plundering. Hence they had luxury without refinement. It could maintain its greatness only by growing greater. Had one thrown to them America with its gold bars, they might, with greater luxury, have gone on this crutch some centuries longer.