Note 2. Author’s note.—“Once,
in looking at the mansion, Redclyffe is struck by
the appearance of a marble inserted into the wall,
and kept clear of lichens.”
Note 3. Author’s note.—“Describe,
in rich poetry, all shapes of deadly things.”
Note 1. Author’s note.—“Conferred
their best qualities”: an alternative phrase
for “done their utmost.”
Note 2. Author’s note.—“Let
the old man have a beard as part of the costume.”
Note 1. Author’s note.—“Describe
him as delirious, and the scene as adopted into his
delirium.”
Note 2. Author’s note.—“Make
the whole scene very dreamlike and feverish.”
Note 3. Author’s note.—“There
should be a slight wildness in the patient’s
remark to the surgeon, which he cannot prevent, though
he is conscious of it.”
Note 4. Author’s note.—“Notice
the peculiar depth and intelligence of his eyes, on
account of his pain and sickness.”
Note 5. Author’s note.—“Perhaps
the recognition of the pensioner should not be so
decided. Redclyffe thinks it is he, but thinks
it as in a dream, without wonder or inquiry; and the
pensioner does not quite acknowledge it.”
Note 6. The following dialogue is marked to
be omitted or modified in the original MS.; but it
is retained here, in order that the thread of the
narrative may not be broken.
Note 7. Author’s note.—“The
patient, as he gets better, listens to the feet of
old people moving in corridors; to the ringing of a
bell at stated periods; to old, tremulous voices talking
in the quadrangle; etc., etc.”
Note 8. At this point the modification indicated
in Note 5 seems to have been made operative:
and the recognition takes place in another way.
Note 1. This paragraph is left incomplete in
the original MS.
Note 2. The words “Rich old bindings”
are interlined here, indicating, perhaps, a purpose
to give a more detailed description of the library
and its contents.
Note 1. Author’s note.—“I
think it shall be built of stone, however.”
Note 2. This probably refers to some incident
which the author intended to incorporate in the former
portion of the romance, on a final revision.
Note 1. Several passages, which are essentially
reproductions of what had been previously treated,
are omitted from this chapter. It belongs to
an earlier version of the romance.
