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77-5: =castillejo=: the ending _ejo_ is usually depreciative as well
as diminutive.

77-6: =por lo que=: cf. note _por el que_, p. 49, 1.

77-7: =a sus solas=: _all alone_. For a similar idiomatic plural, cf.
_de veras_, and (on p. 4, line 31) _con todas las veras_.

77-8: =que daba asco=: (_such_ or _so) that it inspired disgust. Que_
is often elliptical.

78-1: =vas a echar un siglo=: _it will take you forever_.

78-2: =componertelas=: _to take the proper measures; to go about a
thing; to manage_.

78-3: =divertido=: cf. note _olvidado_, p. 31, 1.