[9] Amortizable: the name of some stock, probably imaginary
[10] sacado...posible de: see [sacar].
[11] los: refers to the accounts of the Yuste family.
[12] Jesús me valga: see [Jesús].
[13] Don Juan Tenorio, who lived in the fourteenth century, was the son of an illustrious family of Seville. Don Juan is the type of skeptical libertinism, and, as such, has been made the subject of the drama "El burlador de Sevilla," by Molina; of Molière's comedy, "Don Juan ou le festin de Pierre"; of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni"; of Byron's poem "Don Juan"; and of works by several other authors.
[14] Satanás: because Satan would be sorry to lose so good a worker.
[15] San José, etc.: see [footnote 8].
[16] Bilbao: capital of the province of Vizcaya, Spain.
[17] Barcelona: capital of the province of Barcelona, Spain. Said to have been founded or rebuilt by Hamilcar Barca, and named for him. It is the second city in Spain and one of the principal commercial places in the peninsula.
[18] Año Cristiano: "Lives of the Saints." There are several publications with this title, being either year-books giving the Saints' days, or an account of the lives of the saints.