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After this, we have no letters of Jane till she wrote from Bath; so we may suppose that the sisters were soon united Thethe final preparations for leaving Steventon, and in receiving farewell visits from Edward Austen and his wife, as well as fro of May, Mrs Austen and her two daughters left their old ho Cassandra behind thele day froh Perrots in Paragon Buildings

FOOTNOTES:

[107] The two MP's for the county

[108] The carpenter

[109] Catherine Bigg

[110] Partly _Memoir_, p 58; partly unpublished

[111] James Austen

[112] _Memoir_, p 61

[113] The invitation, the ball-dress, and so letter, refer to a ball annually given at Hurstbourne Park, on the anniversary of the Earl of Ports-day He was the third Lord Portsmouth, whose eccentricities afterwards becaements about these balls, were of a peculiar character It will be remembered that he had been for a short time a pupil at Steventon Rectory (p 21)

[114] A very dull old lady, then residing with Mrs Lloyd

[115] For this expression, see 'The Watsons' (in _Memoir_, p 325)

[116] Sir Thomas Williams, whose first as Jane Cooper; 'Whapshare'

is the correct name of the lady

[117] Unpublished

[118] The Debaries were a large fae near Ibthorp

[119] This seems to show that the balls were held at the town hall and not at the 'Angel Inn' (_Miss Hill_, pp 51-54)

[120] Probably Jane wrote 'Axford Buildings,' which were a continuation of Paragon towards Walcot Church

[121] Eliza Fowle

[122] _Memoir_, p 64

[123] The Duke of Sussex, who usta Murray