[68]: Aus der Luft: the German phrase for "out of the whole cloth."--(Tr.)
[69]: For, notoriously, man's breast is much harder and more inflexible, and like that which it sometimes encloses.--It is singular that parents let their daughters sing, with all feeling, things which they would not allow to be read to them.
[70]: In the Roman Pantheon there stand only two divinities: Mars and Venus.
[71]: As in well known, the pebble or mountain crystal concealed in the setting on a doublette, is called a culasse and the diamond blazing over it a pavillon.
[72]: The Rose-maiden is the one who gains the garland for her distinguished virtue.--(Tr.)
[73]: The three cures which, as above stated, I use against my lung disease, I have from three nations--following in freshly ploughed furrows the English advise--strengthening by a dog's bedfellowship is the advice of a Frenchman (de la Richebandiere)--breathing the air of cow-barns is prescribed to Swedish consumptives.
[74]: Or "Liripoop, a long tail or tippet of a hood, passing round the neck, and hanging down before."--(Worcester's Dictionary.)
[75]: Hollowed ice is, as is well known, applied to the head in case of headache, vertigo or madness.
[76]: Shakespeare's Prologues to the Henrys.--(Tr.)
[77]: An odd forerunner of our modern local quiz, that good Bostonians hope, when they die, to go to Paris (short for Paradise)--(Tr.)