Gare d'Orsay a neoclassical train station, across the Seine from the Louvre and the Tuileries; now a museum of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art.
Gare St. Lazare railroad station located in Paris's 8th Arrondisement.
gazette any of various official publications containing announcements and bulletins.
General Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822–1885); eighteenth President of the U.S. (1869–1877); commander in chief of the Union forces in the Civil War.
gentille (French) pretty, nice, graceful; amiable, pleasing.
gentry people of high social standing; especially, in Great Britain, the class of landowning people ranking just below the nobility.
get off some cables send newspaper stories overseas via telegram.
Gib a town in Spain; also a pun by Hemingway at Jake's expense — a gib is a castrated male cat.
Gibraltar a small peninsula at the southern tip of Spain, extending into the Mediterranean.
glasses opera glasses or binoculars.
Globos illuminados (Spanish) illuminated balloons.
grade a sloping surface.
Grand Cerf a hotel in or near Senlis, apparently.
Great Commoner nickname for William Jennings Bryan.
great giants, cigar-store Indians, thirty feet high, Moors, a King and a Queen enormous effigies carried through the streets to celebrate the fiesta.
gunny-sacking a sack or bag made of gunny, a coarse, heavy fabric of jute or hemp.
Hardy Thomas (1840–1928); English novelist and poet.
He can't believe it didn't mean anything. Brett understands that sleeping with her was meaningful to Cohn, though the experience was of little import to her.
He had a pile of saucers in front of him As each saucer represents one drink brought by the waiter, Stone has been drinking for a long time.
He thinks it was me. Not the show in general. Because he is inexperienced, Romero attributes his pleasure to Brett in particular, rather than to sex generally.
hell's own (Slang) the ultimate with respect to.
Hendaye a seacoast town in southwestern France, in that country's Basque region.
her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. Jake seems to be claiming that Brett initiated the 1920s fashion for short, or "bobbed," hair on women.
Her lodge the concierge's booth in the lobby of Jake's building.
He's quite one of us a reference to wartime experience; Jake is a veteran, and Brett served as a nurse. Again, Cohn did not serve, perhaps because he was simply too young; therefore, he is "one of them."
his compatriot Moses, who led the Israelites into the Promised Land. A reference to Cohn's Jewishness.
Holy Cross a college located in Worcester, Massachusetts.
I tapped with my fingertips on the table. Jake is superstitiously "knocking on wood" so as to counteract Romero's statement, which seems to tempt fate.
I think I'll go to San Sebastian Jake is returning to the scene of Brett's affair with Cohn.
Irati River River in the Basque region of Spain.
It looked badly marked that is, bruised from his fight with Cohn.
