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101-4: =hizo como que se marchaba=: _acted as if he were going off_,
i.e. _pretended to go_.

101-5: =ni tan siquiera=: cf. same note, p. 78, 9.

101-6: =en cuanto fue de dia=: _as soon as it was day_.

101-7: =los tales ruidos=: cf. note _la tal efigie_, p. 65, 4.

101-8: =cuartucho=: (fr. _cuarto_, room) _mean little room_. The
diminutive ending _ucho_ is depreciative.

102-1: =Alcalde de monterilla=: _an ignorant rustic magistrate_.

102-2: =catalan=: of _Cataluna_, province in northwestern Spain.

102-3: =Yo me pinto solo=: _I excel_.