control, they

_Maria ac terras caelumque profundum
Quippe ferant rapidi secum verrantque per auras_.

=36= 23 =gusanera=: strictly defined as a place where worms breed;
apparently meant here as a mass of worms, with reference to the look of
the surface of the brain, and doubtless with a pun on the colloquial use
of =gusanera= for that reservoir of "maggots" (crotchets) whose contents
come out when you touch upon a man's hobby.

=36= 24 =daba paso a=: 'sent down.'

=37= 14 =martillazos=: for force of termination =-azo= cf. R. 1273 (p.
499); K. 765, _b_, rem.; C. 132, 4, _b_. Cf. n. on p. 90, l. 29.

=37= 30 =cazadora traviesa=: like Diana.

=37= 31 =cochero emperegilado y vagabundo=: like Phaethon.

=37= 34 =Mercurio=: the god of commerce.--=Manzanedo=: the firm of
Manzanedo is a leading Madrid banking house.

=38= 1 =barbilampino=: Spaniards regard abundance of hair as an evidence
of force. The allusion is to the well-known frail look of Count von
Moltke.

=38= 6 =a la electricidad le da la gana=: 'electricity takes the
notion.' The subject of =da= is =gana=; cf. the plural form p. 82, l.
11. This construction of =dar= is most common in expressions of desire,
whim, etc., with words like =gusto, ventolera=, and the like. The
Spanish Academy says that =da la gana= is an uncultured colloquialism,
but does not object to this use of =dar= with other words.

=38= 8 =los de Paris=: the Champs-Elysees, the central garden of Paris,
is one of the most famous public squares in the world.

=38= 13 =pisos=: lit. 'stories,' meaning the celestial spheres, whose
number Dante, however, makes nine.

=38= 14 =sino=: i.e. =nada sino, cosa sino=. R. 739; C. 232, 4.

=38= 20 =esta de cuerpo presente=: 'is laid out for its funeral.'

=38= 28 =se han corrido=: 'have been issued'.

=39= 7 =sulfurar=: colloq. expression, equivalent to Eng. 'get a rise
out of.'

=40= 1 =todo se acabo=: 'it's all over,' 'that's an end of it.'
Noteworthy as an idiom is the use of the past absolute of =acabar=, and
occasionally other verbs of ending or stopping, where the perfect would
be expected according to ordinary tense usage.

=40= 7 =salimos con=: see =salir con= in vocabulary.

=40= 13 =no podia menos de=: R. 1033; K. 619; C. 291.

=40= 18 =al Ateneo=: 'to the Athenaeum,' a literary and scientific club
in Madrid, established in 1835, which has been for many years the
meeting-place of Spanish liberals and freethinkers. I