Doña Perfecta, page 280 by Benito Pérez Galdós
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Bernardo del Carpio, etc. The best published collection of the Spanish ballads is the Romancero General of Agustín Durán (Vols. X and XVI of Rivadeneyra's Biblioteca de Autores Españoles).
=150= 15 =recibiera=: cf. n. on p. 41, l. 13.
=150= 22 =partiendo un piñón=: 'hobnobbing'; cf. n. on p. 144, l. 10. The =piñón=, the seed found in the cone of the stone pine, is a very small but pleasant nut.
=150= 31 =Brumario=: 'Brumaire,' an autumn month of the French revolutionary calendar. The occasion on which Napoleon with his soldiers overthrew constitutional government and made himself master of France is always designated as "the 18th Brumaire."--=el saco de Roma=: in 1527 the Constable of Bourbon led the armies of Charles V against Rome. Bourbon was killed in the beginning of the assault, but his leaderless soldiers took the city and plundered it for six months, at the end of which only a third of the population was left.
=150= 32 =la ruina de Jerusalén=: the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus (A.D. 70) is perhaps the most famous in all history for horrors.
=151= 5 =cabe duda=: R. 1155; K. 529,c; C. 284.
=151= 7 =sendas=: 'as many,' 'a mule apiece.' R. 674; K. 332.
=151= 8 =preguntándoles que a dó=: 'asking them whither.' For use of =que= cf. R. 1418. For =dó= cf. n. on p. 126, l. 13.
=151= 13 =complexión=: 'physique.'
=151= 19 =aquél=: i.e. =aquel día=.
=151= 22 =confiara=: cf. n. on p. 41, l. 13.
=152= 1 =han dado de=: cf. n. on p. 50, l. 18.
=152= 21 =Bien está Pedro en su casa=: the Academy lists =bien está San Pedro en Roma=, 'let well enough alone,' 'go farther and fare worse,' 'I'm better as I am'; and =como Pedro p