[26.2] a él le salieron baratas, they stood him cheap. Salir = "to turn out."
[26.3] Andalucía. Southernmost and largest province of Spain.
[26.4] ¿y qué hay con eso? and what of that?
[26.5] con sorna, with a malicious drawl. Sorna is intentional and malicious slowness of speech or action.
[26.6] que, may here be rendered only. Cf. [page 9], note 6.
[26.7] primacía, superiority of rank, precedence. An evident pun on primo, which is of course lost in translating.
[26.8] unos petates, unos hidalgüelos de mala muerte, a lot of good-for-nothings, petty country gentry of small importance, 'of no account.' Cf. un empleíllo de mala muerte, "a wretched little position."
[26.9] levantaban pendón, were raising their standard.
[26.10] tenían fundada... la horca, had their collegiate church founded and the gallows set up. A collegiate church is one which, not being the seat of a bishop or archbishop, is governed by secular dignitaries and canons, and in which the divine services are celebrated as in cathedrals.
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