[55] A distinguished actor of tragedy.
[56] He means here their divorce, which was only deferred by the mutual wish to keep Liana.
[57] Poor dinners, just as cat-silver is an inferior metal.—Tr.
[58] A weak-nerved lady (I know not whether it is the same) who had much religion, fancy, and suffering, became, as she tells me, blind in the same way, and was cured in the same way.
[59] The eternal pricking of the sensitive finger-nerves by knitting, tambour, and other needles, perhaps as much as the touching of the harmonica-bells, makes one, by stimulating, weak in the nerves.
[60] Tartarus is the melancholy part of Lilar.
[61] Kursus—corso.—Tr.
[62] Pride of the meadows quickens the circulation of the blood even to frenzy. This whole observation on the pharmaceutic value of pride of the meadows is taken from Tissot's "Traité sur les Nerfs."