[jd] {325} Short was the course the beardless wanderer run.—[MS.]
[je] Another chief had won——.—[MS. erased.]
[jf] His friends forgot him—and his dog had died.—[MS.]
[jg] Without one rumour to relieve his care.—[MS. erased.]
[jh] That most might decorate that gloomy pile.—[MS. erased.]
[269] {326} [The construction is harsh and obscure, but the meaning is, perhaps, that, though Lara's soul was haughty, his sins were due to nothing worse than pleasure, that they were the natural sins of youth.]
[ji] {328} Their refuge in intensity of thought.—[MS.]
[jj] {329} The sound of other voices than his own.—[MS.]
[270] ["The circumstance of his having at this time [1808-9] among the ornaments of his study, a number of skulls highly polished, and placed on light stands round the room, would seem to indicate that he rather courted than shunned such gloomy associations."—Life, p. 87.]
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