Children could practise it early with
their toy swords adapted to their size.
{41} Mrs. Gaskell, in her tale of 'Sylvia's Lovers,' declares that this
hand-spinning rivalled harp-playing in its gracefulness.
{62} James, the writer's eldest brother.
{63} The limb was saved.
{65} The invitation, the ball dress, and some other things in this and
the preceding letter refer to a ball annually given at Hurstbourne Park,
on the anniversary of the Earl of Portsmouth's marriage with his first
wife. He was the Lord Portsmouth whose eccentricities afterwards became
notorious, and the invitations, as well as other arrangements about these
balls, were of a peculiar character.
{66a} The father of Sir William Heathcote, of Hursley, who was married
to a daughter of Mr. Bigg Wither, of Manydown, and lived in the
neighbourhood.
{66b} A very dull old lady, then residing with Mrs. Lloyd.
{68} The Duke of Sussex, son of George III., married, without royal
consent, to the Lady Augusta Murray.
{75a} Here is evidence that Jane Austen was acquainted with Bath before
it became her residence in 1801.
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