[15.3] dar la lengua, parley.
[15.4] ¿Le parece mucho a diez cuartos? Do you think ten cuartos too much? lit. "does it seem to you [too] much at ten cuartos?" Note the pregnant meaning of mucho. "Too" may be expressed (though not with mucho) by m uy (... para) or demasiado, though the latter is rather avoided, and the adjective or adverb suffices for the double sense, e.g. esta puerta es grande para el cuarto, "this door is too large for the room."—The cuarto = 4 maravedís, and the real = 34 mar., or about 5 cents of our money.
[15.5] para no andar en más cuestiones, not to dispute any longer.
[15.6] se encogió de hombros, shrugged his shoulders.
[15.7] percal, percale, a cotton stuff.
[15.8] embebecida, absorbed.
Page 16.—
[16.1] Nos falta, We have to.
[16.2] no te pongas seria, don't get solemn, look grave.
[16.3] el día de San Juan. The 24th of June.