[140] Alas, not wisely! But any careful reader of “The Silence of Dean Maitland” will see that the Baby was an anachronism.—Ed.
[146] This appears to have been a favourite remark of Mr. Skimpole’s. It will be noticed that, quite without intending it, Mr. Skimpole was the founder of our New Cyrenaic School.
[147] Mr. Skimpole’s recollections of classical ritual are a little mixed hereabouts. He refers to Mr. Honeyman’s projected union with the widow of Mr. Bromley, the famous hatter.
[151] Colonel Newcome, indeed.
[154] Non, Monsieur, je ne cite ni “Woodsworth” ni “le vieux Williams.”
[165] Mr. Potts ought to have consulted the edition of 1833, where he would have found the verse as quoted by Mr. Gandish.
[166] And a nice mixture it must have been!—A. L.
[184] The wooden bed fastened in an ox-waggon.
[185] Mr. Quatermain has just said that the donga was filled by a roaring torrent. Is there not some inconsistency here?
[190] At the High Hole, indeed.—A. L.