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1. verlobt. Idiom? Cf. page 2, note 2.

2. der Bucegi or Bucsecs (pronounce Butschedsch´), Mount Butschetje, the highest point of the Carpathian Mountains (or Transylvanian Alps), 9528 feet high.

3. sich, reflexive or reciprocal pronoun? Cf. page 2, note 5.

4. ward (old form of the past of werden), less used now than wurde.

5. wie (here = als wie), as if.