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Captain Paul Boyton (1848–1924), an American adventurer famous for swimming feats in an inflatable rubber suit across European waterways in the 1870s. ↩
"The young lady who plays the harp" is the imaginary heiress of Marie's joking letter to Marcuard of 14 May (071.0319): two millions to "place", harp, singing and embroidery, and twenty-two "only in 1859", i.e. about forty. Marie offered her as a match for Alexandre; Marcuard answers in the same vein. ↩
"Pesth" is the old German spelling of Pest; Buda, Óbuda and Pest had been united as Budapest in 1873, but the name Pest remained in common use. (Source: en.wikipedia «Budapest»: unification of Buda, Óbuda and Pest on 17 November 1873.) ↩