In the notes below, the reference numbers denote page and line of this volume (the line count includes titles and headings). No note is made for material included in standard desk-reference books such as Webster's
Collegiate, Biographical,
and
Geographical
dictionaries. Quotations from Shakespeare are keyed to
The Riverside Shakespeare,
ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974). For further background than is provided in the notes, see
Henry James Letters,
ed. Leon Edel (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Vol. I18431875 [1974]; Vol. II18751883 [1975]; Vol III18831895 [1980]; Vol. IV18951916 [1984]) and
The Complete Notebooks of Henry James,
ed. Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
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 | 25.38 contadina] Peasant woman.
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| 29.4
poverina
] Poor little girl.
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| 35.13 lazzarone] Beggar; vagabond.
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| 45.10 scagliola] Plaster.
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| 52.9 Pisana] Native of Pisa.
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| 66.1819
appartement de garçon
] Bachelor apartment.
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| 67.15
froissé
] Offended.
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| 82.3436 famous dragon to be sacrificed] The Minotaur.
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| 83.1 Appleton Brown] John Appleton Brown (18441902), American painter.
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| 83.12 Germans] Dancing parties at which the German cotillion was the chief dance.
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| 86.2526
bonnes d'enfants
] Nursery maids.
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| 98.18
enfoncée
] Ensconced.
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