Middle Ages a =behetria= was a community
(urban or rural) which had the right of choosing its own lord and of
making a new choice from time to time. With the disappearance of the
institution from actual life its reputation as a hotbed of uncertainty
and contention grew all the stronger, and the word is used to-day to
mean 'anarchy' (in a loose sense) or 'turmoil.'

=125= 12 =_Gestas_=: italic because the word, like English 'gest,' is
obsolete.

=125= 19 =cuando los Apostolicos=: 'at the time of the Apostolics,' a
reactionary faction that undertook to get possession of the state in the
last years of the reign of Ferdinand VII (1814-1833). Galdos has devoted
to them one of his series of _Episodios Nacionales_.--=la guerra de los
siete anos=: the Carlist uprising in 1833 and the following years.

=125= 20 =1848=: a revolutionary year in all Europe; not so
conspicuously so in Spain, yet cf. p. 129, l. 25.

=125= 23 =la guerra de la Independencia=: i.e. against Napoleon;
generally known in English as the Peninsular War (1808-1814).

=125= 27 =con visos de=, etc.: 'looking like a representative or
instrument of the central power.'

=126= 13 =por do quiera que=: 'wheresoever.' The antiquated form =do=,
doublet of =donde=, is now preserved only in phrases in which it is
followed by =quiera=, and in a few locutions like =a do=, 'whither.'

=126= 15 =municipio=: 'city authorities.'

=126= 33 =caben=: R. 1155; K. 529, _a_; C. 284.

=127= 18 =entre tu y yo=: cf. n. on p. 46, l. 19.

=128= 11 =dar la direccion a los globos=: before the development of
aviation, to give steering power to balloons was one of the perennial
enterprises of the most wildly ambitious type of inventors.

=128= 23 =me pican=: 'bite' (of mustard, garlic, etc.).

=129= 5 =periodico suelto=: 'irregular periodical' (hence appearing when
and where least expected). The most familiar type of irregular
periodical in the Spanish-speaking world is the revolutionary sheet
(to-day usually anarchistic) which is driven to the announcement
"Aparece cuando puede" by the double pressure of poverty and
governmental hostility.

=129= 20 =perezca=, etc.: 'die and be born again.'

=129= 25 =en 1848=: cf. n. on p. 125, l. 20.

=129= 26 =en puertas=: i.e. on police duty.

=130= 3 =maldicion de Dios=: cf. "=ser bendicion de Dios= (figurative
and colloquial phrase) be very abundant", Academy.

=130= 16 =de que pie cojea=: i.e. what really ails it.

=130= 19 =ell