[47] Lombard Street: the centre of the banking business in London.
[48] China orange: a sweet orange.
[49] Fond: here, foolish.
[50] Itinerant: wandering.
[51] Pyrenees: an allusion to the French and English wars in Spain.
[52] Waterloo: (in Belgium) the scene of the crushing defeat of the French in 1815, by the allied forces under the Duke of Wellington, by which the power of Napoleon was finally broken. The Old Guard was the emperor's favorite body of troops, and was considered irresistible.
[53] No side: a drawn game.