58 4 Bon! 'that's nothing!'--vous n'êtes pas homme: 'you are not the sort of man.'
58 5 on ... à bout de: 'we'll perhaps be able to dispose of', cf. note to 46 7.
58 6 lui achetant: cf. note to 5 27--Allons: 'come now!' cf. notes to 36 18, 56 1.
58 12 Écrire ... simplement: 'just write to the lady.'
58 18 à mesure: 'as you go along', cf. note to 33 25.
58 19 que de bontés: lit. 'how many kindnesses!' transl. 'how good you are!' Cf. note to 10 24.
58 23 Fort heureusement que: cf. note to 41 2.
58 26 Lamartine (Alphonse, 1790 1869) famous French poet, prose writer, and statesman. His "Voyage en Orient" is the record of his travels in 1832-1833.
58 27 Cantique des Cantiques: the 'Song of Songs,' or 'Song of Solomon,' full of the Oriental phraseology of passion.