See p.[25].
{75b} A gentleman and lady lately engaged to be married.
{80} It seems that Charles Austen, then first lieutenant of the
'Endymion,' had had an opportunity of shewing attention and kindness to
some of Lord Leven's family.
{83} See Wharton's note to Johnson and Steevens' Shakspeare.
{102} This mahogany desk, which has done good service to the public, is
now in the possession of my sister, Miss Austen.
{107} At this time, February 1813, 'Mansfield Park' was nearly finished.
{110} The present Lady Pollen, of Redenham, near Andover, then at a
school in London.
{117} See Mrs. Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol. ii. p. 215.
{122} It was her pleasure to boast of greater ignorance than she had any
just claim to. She knew more than her mother tongue, for she knew a good
deal of French and a little of Italian.
{126} Mrs. Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol. ii. p. 53.
{130} This must have been 'Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk.'
{136a} A greater genius than my aunt shared with her the imputation of
being _commonplace_. Lockhart, speaking of the low estimation in which
Scott's conversational powers were held in the literary and scientific
society of Edinburgh, says: 'I think the epithet most in vogue concerning
it was "commonplace.
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