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"Papa Léon" — Marie's ironic designation for Audiffret's father, Léon d'Audiffret. ↩
The Promised Land — the land of Canaan promised to the Israelites in their Exodus from Egypt; a byword for a longed-for goal that proves elusive. ↩
The Baptism of Jesus (Theophany/Epiphany) — 6 January Old Style (Julian calendar), corresponding to 19 January New Style (Gregorian); one of the great feasts of the Russian Orthodox Church. ↩
"Fils de chien et de Léon!" — "son of a dog and of Léon!" — combining the standard insult ("son of a dog") with Audiffret's father's Christian name for added venom. ↩
A characteristic string of Marie's hyperbolic exclamations, escalating in grandeur from biblical thunder to geological to oceanic catastrophe. ↩
Fast — in English in the original; Victorian English slang for a woman of loose morals or improper behaviour. ↩