[166]: The dragon was an old-fashioned war-machine.—Tr.
[167]: Color of burnt bones.—Tr.
[168]: The old astronomers inserted between the fixed stars and the planets a tremulous heaven, in order to have something on which to charge the slight anomalies of the latter bodies.
[169]: Nine dancing-women are strung together to make an elephant for the king. One makes the trunk; four, the legs; four, the body. History of all Travels, Vol. X.
[170]: An old German name affixed to apothecaries, in allusion to the alleged profits on their drugs.—Tr.
[171]: The little finger. The German name is kept for the sake of the allusion.—Tr.
[172]: All this is neatly summed up in the witty Frenchman's saying, "Gratitude is a keen sense of favors to come."—Tr.
[173]: These oaths of silence, as is well known, his Lordship had required of Victor, Clotilda, and her mother, with all that tragic circumstance which takes so strong a hold especially on female hearts.
[174]: Victor, Julius, Flamin.
[175]: She well knows that it was Victor.