[143] Thus did the turnkeys name their prisoners.
[144] Alexand. ab Al., v. 4.
[145] To distinguish himself from the eagle of the Emperor, who holds something in both claws.
[146] Bouverot was a Catholic.
[147] He meant one with the poor Lector.
[148] Literally, "twilight-bird."—Tr.
[149] To get the basket means a refusal.—Tr.
[150] I do not mean (as perhaps may appear from the selling) Pitt the Minister, but Pitt the Diamond, which the father of the present Pitt traded away to the Duke Regent of France, and for whose splinters he got twelve thousand ducats into the bargain.
[151] I sell only my landscapes, and throw in the figures.
[152] Stand, in German, has the double meaning of an estate and a stand.—Tr.