[6] a palos, with blows.
[7] al otro día, on the next day.
[8] a guiarse por mis consejos, if they had let themselves be guided by my counsels.
[9] ¡Pues por supuesto! Of course.
[10] Dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres, an old Spanish proverb resembling our "birds of a feather," etc.
[11] ni por ésas, nor was that of avail.
[12] unos ojos tan relucientes, "unos sometimes seems to mean little more than 'a pair of.'" (Hills and Ford's Spanish Grammar.)
[13] un no sé qué de diabólico, something diabolical.
[14] en tiempos de antaño, last year.
[15] Urgel, the seat of a bishopric on the south slope of the Pyrenees, northeast of Saragossa.—que en mala hora naciera, curse him; lit. "who would that he were born in an evil hour."