[69.5] acicate, sting, spur.
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[70.1] el marica de D. Cándido, D. Cándido the old woman. Marica is applied to effeminate men and to such as interfere in woman's business. De denotes apposition. Cándido = simpleton.
[70.2] velar las injurias, veiling one's insults.
[70.3] descubrirse, laying oneself open (to prosecution).
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[71.1] un tanto, somewhat.
[71.2] ¿Que me he comido... tragaderas! So I ate up your son's fishing-smack, did I? I didn't think I could swallow so large a mouthful! lit. "had so good a gullet."
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[72.1] sentar plaza, enlist.