se fuir — *to shUn each other

48. 9. de grande race — 'of a noble family,' 'of noble blood.* 16. son fottds pour revenue — 'took his capital for income,' />., spent his capital as if it were interest. 19. le Pérou — Peru, then believed to be a land of inexhaustible wealth, and therefore synonymous with a vast fortune. 20. sen alia — Note the explicit use of the preterite to indicate a single act in past time, ' disappeared.' 27. Coûte, etc. — ^Victor Hugo claimed to have taken this estimate from the records of Nufiez de Castro's Solo Madrid es Corte,

49. I. Pactolus was the name of a river in Lydia, which abounded in gold; hence, un pactole, 'a treasure.' 6. comte-duc — The count duke of Olivarez. He had been prime-minister and favorite of Philip IV. 21. II y faut mettre un terme — ' There must be a limit put to,' etc. 26. L*almojarifa2go — Sp. ' Export and import duties.'

50. I. Snow is brought from the mountains for use in the cities. 2. les ports sees — Has reference to the ten per cent export and import duties upon all merchandise proceeding to, or from Valencia, Aragon, and Navarre. 13. // me faut — Note the impersonal verb, ' I want."

5L 19. r enfant bavarois — ^Joseph Leopold of Bavaria, who died at the age of six years. 30. fille de joie — * courtesans. *

52. 6. coupe-jarrets — ' cutthroats.' 1 5. pieds nus — ' barefoot.' 35. See also Victor Hugo's ' Monologue de Charles-Quint au tombeau de Charlemagne ' (Hemani).

54. 13. 'Your Excellence ' is the Spanish form of address to a crown minister, an ambassador, or a grandee of Spain. 15. Supply le voir or le recevoir,