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It is difficult to believe that Jane Austen can have written anything so clumsy as 'hoays known no principle' Such, however, is the reading of all the editions, except the Ha any note, violently e the principle'

6 Chapter xxxIX: Bentley, following the second edition, reads:--

Her days were spent in a kind of slow bustle; all was busy without getting on, always behind hand and la to be an econoularity; dissatisfied with her servants, without skill to , or indulging the their respect

Here the printer has been enious The text should, of course, be 'always busy,' as it is in the first edition and the Hampshi+re Edition

7 Chapter XL: Bentley's edition, following the early editions, reads:--

'for Henry is in Norfolk; business called hio, or perhaps he only pretended the call, for the sake of being travelling at the same time that you were'

Mr Johnson and the Winchester Edition read 'to call' There see

8 Chapter XLVII: Bentley and nearly all editions read:--

Tis, but still it was a sort of thing which he never could get entirely the better of; and as to his everwith any other woman who could--it was too ination

The broken sentence means 'a woman who could console him for the loss of Mary'

Mr Johnson's editionsa comma for the dash after 'could'

9 Chapter XLVIII: Bentley, following the early editions, reads:--

Maria had destroyed her own character, and he would not, by a vain atte his sanction to vice, or in seeking to lessen its disgrace, be anywise accessory to introducing such misery in another man's family, as he had known himself

Mr Johnson and the Winchester Edition read 'by affording his sanction to vice,' which is an unnecessary alteration

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1 Chapter XVIII:--

'No, E lish He reeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people--nothing really a, found in the first edition and the Winchester Edition, is without doubt correct; but Bentley, Johnson, and the Hampshi+re Edition read 'He may be very ”amiable”'

2 Chapter XXIII:--

But when satisfied on all these points, and their acquaintance proportionably advanced,

Mr Johnson, in his 1892 edition, did not approve of the word 'proportionably,' and read '[proportionately]'; but he has since altered his mind The first edition and all others read 'proportionably,' and there appears to be authority for such a word

3 Chapter XXV:--

Vanity, extravagance, love of change, restlessness of teood or bad; heedlessness as to the pleasure of his father and Mrs Weston, indifferent as to how his conduct es]

There are tords in the sentence, which differ in the various editions The first edition reads 'indifferent''changes' Bentley reads 'indifference''changes' Mr Johnson and the Winchester Edition read 'indifferent' and 'charges'; the Haes' 'Indifference' would seeht

4 Chapter XXIX:--