=Page 23.=--23-1. {=machen=} (in colloquial language used as substitute for almost any verb, = Eng. to get); {sich machen unter ...} = {sich mischen} or {sich begeben unter ...} 23-2. {=sich=} (dat. of interest) = {für sich}, _for himself_ (exclusively). 23-3. {=es=} (indef.), here perhaps _“curiosity.”_ 23-4. {=wie wäre es?=} (condit. subj.), for condit. {würde es sein?} (how would it be?), _how would it do?_ or _what do you think of ...?_ 23-5. {=erzählte=} (subj. impf.) = {erzählen würde}. 23-6. {=es wird nicht viel werden mit dem Schlaf heute Nacht=} (colloq. phrase), _sleep is hardly to amount to anything to-night_. 23-7. {trotz Ihres =hohen Bettes=}--to spare room, in the Alpine huts the _beds_ are found _high up_ on the wall, near the ceiling of the room, resting on pegs driven into the wall. 23-8. {=mein Fräulein=}--directed to Elsa. 23-9. {=das wäre schön=}, cf. Note 4, above. 23-10. {Fräuleins} (pl. for {Fräulein}), comp. {Kerls} for {Kerle}, Page 16, Note 1. =Page 24.=--24-1. {=wes=} (obsol. genit. for {welches}) {=Zeichens und Standes=} (colloq. phrase with adverbial genitive) lit., “what the inscription of my sign-board is and my [social] standing,” trans., _what my occupation is and my standing in life_. 24-2. {=wo ... her=} (separated) for the more common form {woher´}. 24-3. {=nie´derrheinisch=}, _from the Lower Rhine_, i.e. from the northwestern part of Germany. 24-4. {ehrlicher Leute =Kind=} (sing., collectively), a phrase for {ehrlicher Leute Kinder}. Cf. Page 20, Note 4. 24-5. {=es=} (indef.), perhaps: _things_ or _affairs_. 24-6. {=es=} (indef.), here perhaps: _my fate_ or _a change in my life_. 24-7. {=es wurde ... gestrickt=}, _some little knitting was done_. 24-8. {=wanderten=} (=wandered=). Account for the idiom. Cf. Page 4, Note 12. 24-9. {=es=} (introductory or grammatical subject); what is the logical subject? 24-10. {=doch=} (adverb. idiom), adds force to the request. 24-11. {=geben Sie mir die Körbchen!=}--The point lies in the double meaning of the phrase {Einem einen Korb geben} = (1) literally: _to give one a basket_, and (2) figuratively: _to refuse a suitor_; _to give “the sack”_ or _“the mitten.”_ =Page 25.=--25-1. {=es=} (indef.), here _the thought_. 25-2. {=komm=}. Note the sudden change of address from the formal second pers. pl. to the affectionate second pers. singular. 25-3. {=die=} (emphat.) = {diese, sie}--how known that it is not relative pronoun? 25-4. {=um so hübscheres=}, _all the prettier_. 25-5. {ein Kuß =brannte=} (=burnt=), _was fired_. 25-6. {=ob=} (obsol. prepos.) = {über} or {wegen}. 25-7. {=es=} (introductory), _there_. 25-8. {=es hat nicht seine Richtigkeit mit der ...=}, _there is_ (or _must be_) _some misconception as to her being a ..._ 25-9. {=Knigge’s „Umgang mit Menschen,“=} _Baron Knigge’s_ (1751-1796) once famous standard book „_Instruction in Deportment_.“ 25-10. {=Pen=}(pronounce as in French){=sions´mutter=}.