Poznámky
In English in the original. ↩
En v'là un genre! — Parisian working-class slang: "Now there's a type for you!" — dismissive contempt. ↩
Marie's draft Italian telegram: "Florence, Count Alessandro Larderel — 6,000 lire at his convenience, his conditions when [he comes to] Naples." ↩
risposta agata = risposta pagata ("reply paid", the prepaid-answer formula of telegrams): "reply prepaid, at once, to the Rosati office." The telegram was never sent. ↩
Dante, Inferno II.127–129: the simile of flowers drooping in night frost and reviving in morning sun — here Marie reverses it, wilting rather than blooming. ↩
Marie refers to a Figaro article that apparently reported on her family or her own social missteps in a damaging way; the specifics are unclear. ↩