9 20 bien sanglé ... futaine: 'in his tight-fitting fustian shooting-jacket. Sangler= 'to bind with a girth,' 'to strap'; cf. un officier sanglé 'an officer with a tight-fitting coat on.'
9 21 se montrant ... ils se disaient: cf. note to 7 2.
10 4 pampas: 'pampas,' vast plains in Argentina, extending from the Atlantic to the Andes.
10 5 faire ... casquette: faire une battue = to beat (battre) the woods or bushes for game. Transl. 'to go a-cap-hunting.'
10 7 A la longue, il y aurait eu (conditional anterior of il y a) de quoi: 'in the end there would have been wherewith,' 'if this existence were continued long, it would have been enough.'
10 10 en vain s'entourait-il: cf. note to 5 32.
10 13 lectures romanesques: 'romantic readings.' The French for Engl. 'lecture' is conférence, causerie. Romanesque = 'romantic.' The French romantique is used in speaking of the Romantic School literary history, and of landscapes.--don Quichotte: hero of the celebrated novel "Don Quixote," by Cervantes (1547-1616, cf. note to 39 24). Don Quixote, a Spanish gentleman, has his head turned as a result of excessive reading of romances, and, attended by his fat, vulgar squire, Sancho Panza, scours Spain, righting wrongs and rescuing fair damsels, in the fashion of the knights of old. Don Quixote was ever tireless and fearless, while Sancho Panza disliked hard knocks and preferred a slothful life of ease and plenty to the glorious career of privations which was the lot of the knight errant. Tartarin de Tarascon combined the qualities of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; hence a terrible internal conflict of which we shall read in chapter vi. This disconcerting complexity of character, which is not confined to a Southerner if we may believe the epigraph of this work (En France tout le monde est un peu de Tarascon), is again elucidated in "La Défense de Tarascon" (in "Contes du lundi") and in "Tartarin sur les Alpes," ch. ii, p 35, where the adventurous spirit of warren rabbits (lapins de garenne) clashes with the domesticity of cabbage-garden rabbits (lapins de choux).
10 14 s'arracher aux: cf. note to 4 24.