L.
{13} The editor has no doubt that some one was--Miss Watson. Cf.
'Belinda.'
{14} Owing to the sudden decease of the Dean in well-known and
melancholy circumstances, this letter was not delivered.
{15} Alas, not wisely! But any careful reader of "The Silence of
Dean Maitland" will see that the Baby was an anachronism.--ED.
{16} This appears to have been a favourite remark of Mr.
Skimpole's. It will be noticed that, quite without intending it,
Mr. Skimpole was the founder of our New Cyrenaic School.
{17} Mr. Skimpole's recollections of classical ritual are a little
mixed hereabouts. He refers to Mr. Honeyman's projected union with
the widow of Mr. Bromley, the famous hatter.
{18} Colonel Newcome, indeed.
{19} Non, Monsieur, je ne cite ni "Woodsworth" ni "le vieux
Williams."
{20} Mr. Potts ought to have consulted the edition of 1833, where
he would have found the verse as quoted by Mr. Gandish.
{21} And a nice mixture it must have been!--A. L.
{22} The wooden bed fastened in an ox-waggon.
{23} Mr. Quatermain has just said that the donga was filled by a
roaring torrent. Is there not some inconsistency here?
{24} At the HIGH HOLE, indeed.--A. L.
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