=Page 39.=--39-1. Account for { =sich=}; cf. Page 9, Note 8.
39-2. { =ihm war es=} (cf. Page 37, Note 1), { =wie wenn=}, syn. { als ob}, { als wenn}.
39-3. { =die Studenten zählten die »Häupter ihrer Lieben«=} (lit. "the heads of their beloved"). A quotation from Schiller's { »Das Lied von der Glocke,«} verses 225-226 of which run thus:
{ Er zählt die Häupter seiner Lieben, Und sieh! Ihm fehlt kein teures Haupt.}
_The faces that he loves--he counts them o'er,_ See--not one look is missing from that store. (_Edward Bulwer Lytton._)
here jocosely applied to the crowned heads stamped on coins; (comp. Eng. "mopusses").
39-4. { =d. h.=}, abbrev. for { das heißt}, = _i.e._
39-6. { =O´beritalien=} (=Upper Italy=), i.e. _Northern Italy_.
39-7. { =ein´geschlagen!=} (idiom.) perf. partic. for imperative = { schlagen Sie ein!}
=Page 40.=--40-1. { =der alte Gemsbart=}, humorously for { der alte Führer mit dem Gemsbart} (cf. Page 5, Note 1) { am Hut}.
40-2. { =zu=}--_to_, _towards_, _in the direction of_--in this sense always following its case--or may be taken as prefix of comp. verb { zuziehen}.
40-3. { =indem sie ... segneten=} (by pres. partic.), _praising_.
40-5. { =Kaiser Franz Joseph in Gold=}, the picture of _Francis Joseph I_, the present _emperor_ of Austria, _on a gold-piece_.
40-6. { =möchte für ihr Leben gern=} (phrase; lit., "would like for her life"), _is exceedingly anxious_.
40-7. { =es=} (indef.) { =klopft=}, _there is a knocking_, or _somebody knocks at the door_.
40-9. { =es wird ihm ganz italienisch zu Mut=} (humorous phrase), _he begins to feel like a genuine Italian_, or _as if he were in Italy_.
40-10. "=Entra´te pure!=" (Ital.), _Just come in! won't you?_
40-11. { »=als=«} (Alpine dialect), cf. Page 5, Note 10.
=Page 41.=--41-1. { =seid Ihr es?=} (idiom., lit., "are you it?") = ?
41-3. { =wanderte fort=}, _was thrown away_; cf. Page 4, Note 12.
41-4. { =wie wenn=} = ? cf. Page 39, Note 2.
41-5. { =ist=} (idiom.). The German present tense expresses what "has been and still is" = Engl. perfect tense.
41-6. { ist =es=} (indef.), cf. Page 15, Note 4.
41-7. { =englisch=}, _English style_.--This remark would suggest that since their first meeting a lively intercourse and close friendship had sprung up between Mr. Brown and the second Tenor.