141

Ruiz Ramón, op. cit., 174.

142

Joaquín Casalduero, Vida y obra de Galdós (nueva ed. aumentada, Madrid 1951), 152.

143

Ibid., 153.

144

Op. cit., 194-5.

145

Gustavo Correa, El simbolismo religioso en las novelas de Pérez Galdós (Madrid 1962), 193-4.

146

Ruiz Ramón, op. cit., 175-88.

147

The critic who has stressed it most is Correa, op. cit., 172-5.

148

John, xix, 12-16. Mrs. Colin points out in her thesis that this incident of the guard who places his duty to the Ordenanza above the obligation to charity has its source in Tolstoy; Ma religion (Paris 1885), 23-4.

149

Op. cit., 186.

150

Op. cit., 192-3, 194.