[Page 146.]—1.[{146-1}] cuanto más, much less.
2.[{146-2}] San Juan de los Reyes, a convent founded in 1476 by the "Catholic Kings", Ferdinand and Isabella, and dedicated to their patron saint, John the Baptist. It was much damaged by the French in 1808.
[Page 148.]—1.[{148-1}] las antes losas sepulcrales = las losas, antes losas sepulcrales.
2.[{148-2}] rey José; Joseph Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon, whom the latter made king of Spain in June, 1808. Madrid was his capital.
[Page 149.]—1.[{149-1}] de todo tenían menos de, were anything but.
2.[{149-2}] ciudad de los Césares. Toledo was an important strategic point and trading center during the Roman domination of Spain, but it was not the capital city of the land.
[Page 151.]—1.[{151-1}] llegar y besar el santo, to meet promptly with success. The expression probably has its origin in the fact that at the time of a pilgrimage to a holy shrine one must usually wait a considerable while before being able to kiss the image of the saint, and fortunate is he who arrives and kisses without delay.
[Page 152.]—1.[{152-1}] trece, a slight discrepancy; according to the statement at the beginning of the story there were fourteen.
[Page 154.]—1.[{154-1}] ya no vivo, I shall have no peace.
[Page 158.]—1.[{158-1}] Elvira de Castañeda was doubtless the lady's maiden name, which in Spain a woman retains after marriage, and to which she joins, connected by de, her husband's name.