[2.9] adosadas, attached. A term of structural engineering = adheridas, arrimadas.
[2.10] lustre, position, importance.
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[3.1] les daréis la razón, you will say that they were right.
[3.2] debe de ser bien triste, must be very gloomy. Deber alone denotes obligation, deber de, probability. This distinction is not universally observed, but is tending to become so. Bien here = muy.
[3.3] no se echa menos, is not missed. Also echar de menos.
[3.4] Adviértese. This inversion of verb and personal pronoun object occurs only when the verb is indicative, and, in general, only when it begins a clause; though deviations from this latter usage are frequent in Valdés and other contemporary authors.
[3.5] sin poder atribuirlo, without one's being able to attribute it. Infinitive with indefinite subject (uno) understood.
[3.6] apenas, almost as soon as, lit. "hardly."
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