: light dramatic performance peculiar to Spain, partly
recited and partly sung.

=64= 1 =Si no=: elliptical expression very common in colloquial Spanish,
'otherwise,' 'if you don't think so.'

=64= 20 =alguno=: i.e. =negocio=.

=64= 23 =papel sellado=: legal documents are required to bear a revenue
stamp.

=65= 10 =tejares=: 'brickyards,' where tiles (=tejas=), sun-dried bricks
(=adobes=), and burnt bricks (=ladrillos=) are made.

=65= 16 =superior=: i.e. higher up the stream.

=65= 23 =linderos=: cf. n. on p. 7, l. 6.

=66= 1 =Caco=: 'Cacus,' robber giant, son of Vulcan, who lived in a cave
of the Aventine Hill, and who was killed by Hercules for stealing from
him the oxen of Geryon (cf. Vergil, _Aen._ VIII, 193 ff.).

=66= 5 =prescripcion=: by Justinian's code, twenty years' adverse
possession of an absent person's real estate makes the occupant the
owner.

=66= 9 =lo que es eso=: 'as for that.'

=66= 13 =juicio de conciliacion=: 'reconciliation hearing.' The Spanish
law requires that before actual trial of a civil cause the parties shall
try, in open court, to arrive at a friendly settlement of their
differences.

=67= 6 =No vale la pena=: 'it's not worth while,' vague phrase used in
politely deprecating an apology (Fr. _ce n'est pas la peine_).

=68= 11 =pegan la hebra=: 'get the thread tied' (get started in
chatting).

=68= 31 =_Madrid_=: the pronunciation of final =d= like =z= (Eng. _th_
in _teeth_) is either provincialism or affectation. It is the single
point on which the pronunciation of well-bred Castilians is not accepted
as standard.

=68= 34 =muy relacionada en la Corte=: 'widely acquainted at the
capital.'

=69= 4 =Muley-Abbas=: Moorish prince, brother of the Emperor of Morocco,
who visited Spain soon after the war between Spain and Morocco
(1859-1860) was ended.

=69= 7 =el 60=: i.e. =el ano 1860=.

=69= 10 =moreria=: this quaint word is common in the Spanish popular
ballads (=romances=) both for the land of the Moors and for the Moors
themselves. Galdos uses it, of course, with a touch of humor.

=69= 13 =que se salia=, etc.: (seemingly) 'bursting out of himself
through being too big to go in his own skin.'

=69= 15 =Procedia=, etc.: 'he was a product of the exclaustration'; i.e.
a monk who had turned priest at the time of the confiscation of the
monasteries by the Spanish government (1835).

=69= 24 =la Fama=, etc.: cf. Vergil, _Aen._ IV, 174 ff.

=69= 33 =vacia=: that is, o