[609] los cuatro terrones, the niggardly patch.
[610] parece escribir el sol... la callejuela oriental, the sun seems to write in arabesque characters trembling with lights and shadows upon the whitewashed walls of the narrow oriental streets.
[611] a altas horas de la noche, in the late hours of the night.
[612] una mujer blanca y azul, a woman clad in blue and white, i.e., the colors of the Argentine flag.
[613] Murillo, Spanish painter. Cf. 138, 19.
[614] a prevención, in their foresight.
[615] Van desapareciéndose, Gradually there disappear.
[616] ¡Lo que trabajará...! How he will work!
[617] Balzac (Honoré de), French novelist of the nineteenth century.
[618] “¡Tú serás mío!” Cf. Les Illusions Perdues, by Balzac, chapter entitled, Un Grand Homme de Province à Paris.