la Rollona. See note to page 13, line

24. à finibus terræ, a phrase frequent in the Latin Bible, is here used incorrectly to mean ‘ to the ends of the earth.’ It is still heard in this sense in Spain.

Page 56. — 3T. Je donnerais ... au poing, I would give one of my fingers to meet your nobleman in the mountains , each of us with a club in his hand.

Page 57. — 32. rire de crocodile. Cf. Mérimée’s L’Amour africain, in the Théâtre de Clara Gazul (1825; p. 180, ed. Trahard):

“ ai-je sauvé un crocodile qui devait un jour me mordre et rire de sa morsure ? ”

Page 58. — 13. que je te ferai dire, of which I will send you word.

30. le nain . . . cracher loin. Adaptation of a Gipsy proverb from The Zincali, p. 420-1. Borrow translates: “ The extreme (the most he can do) of a dwarf is to spit largely.”

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Page 69. — 22. C’est leur garde andalouse, That's the way those Andalusians stand on guard.

Page 60. — 22. Si Carmen ne lui eût poussé le bras . . . The

pluperfect subjunctive (II, C, 3) may be used in written French instead of the pluperfect indicative in the if-clause of an unreal condition referring to the past. See notes to page 10, line 24, and page 14, line 16.

28. il ... a mis à l’ombre. This expression, which usually means ‘ put in prison,’ is here used in the extended sense of ‘ put away, murder.’