[47.2] cuentas galanas, fine calculations, castles in the air. Also cuentas alegres.
[47.3] o sea, that is to say. The conjunction o, when it denotes not difference or separation, but equivalence, is sometimes strengthened by the present subjunctive of the verb ser. Cf. Italian ossia.
[47.4] ninguna, none other.
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[48.1] mañana tendremos hijos, before long there will be children.
[48.2] consentía = permitía.
[48.3] va empapada, is imbued, replete.
[48.4] la conocimos, we made her acquaintance.
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[49.1] por la parte de tierra, on the land side.