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1. doch (adverb. idiom), with an imperative adds force to the request; please! won’t you?

2. den Argesch, comp. page 49, note 1, and page 51, note 8.

3. wollte = 1. wanted, wished; 2. was about, was at the point; 3. claimed, pretended. Here = ?

4. immer schwererem (cf. page 49, note 4), here = um so schwererem or desto schwererem Herzen, with her heart the heavier (or the more dejected), je kleiner, the smaller . . .

5. von den Steinen, auf denen sie ging, ermattet, for von dem Gehen (or Wandern) auf den Steinen ermattet.

6. wie (conjunction), colloquially for? Cf. page 2, note 4.

7. es war ihr (phrase) = ? Cf. page 2, note 9.