Note 1 — Chapter II
Jeremiah Curtin translation
Third, or ring finger.
[2] Kremen means flint in Polish.
[3] He had received an inheritance some time before.
[4] An Italian wine.
[5] Polish noble.
[6] River-maiden among the Slavs.
[7] Thus printed to show her style of Italian.
[8] A diminutive of Aneta.
[9] Familiar for Castelli.
[10] “Nitechka” (little thread) is the diminutive of “Nitka,” itself a diminutive of “Nits,” which means thread.
[11] Nickname for Kopovski.
[12] Was rejected.
[13] Name’s day, day of that saint whose name a given person bears.
[14] A fanciful Roumanian name formed from the French crapule, a debauchee.
[15] With Panna Ratkovski, Svirski wished to avoid spiritual relationship, a hindrance to marriage.
[16] Pronounced Márees, a diminutive of Marynia.
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