[Footnote 118a] and [118b]: Similarity of nature, identity of being. Terms of old theological controversy.—Tr.
[Footnote 119]: The uncle had lied again, for he had previously, as we have seen, gone to Rome, where he delivered to the knight and the Princess the letters from Pestitz.
[Footnote 120]: The German word partie means a match in matrimony or in cards.—Tr.
[Footnote 121]: A familiar and favorite German song, "Freut euch des Lebens."—Tr.
[Footnote 122]: This passage reminds the translator of a beautiful poem of Lenau's, in which the postilion passing a graveyard in the mountains at night, where an old fellow-postilion lies buried, blows an air which the dead man used to love; and a passenger hearing the echo from the mountain-churchyard, says:—
"And a blast upon the air
From the heights came flying:
Was the dead postilion there
To his strains replying?"—Tr.
[Footnote 123]: See Customs of the Morlacks. From the Italian. 1775.