Of such sensations, in the drowsy drear
After—which shadows the, say—second year.—[MS.]
Of that sad heavy, drowsy, doubly drear
After, which shadows the first—say, year.—[MS. erased.]
[521] [Stanza lxxvi. is not in the MS.]
[522] {398}A Russian estate is always valued by the number of the slaves upon it.
[523] {399}[The "Protassova" (born 1744) was a cousin of the Orlofs. She survived Catherine by many years, and was, writes M. Waliszewski (The Story of a Throne, 1895, ii. 193), "present at the Congress of Vienna, covered with diamonds like a reliquary, and claiming precedence of every one." She is named l'éprouveuse in a note to the Mémoires Secrets, 1800, i. 148.]
[JS] And not be dazzled by its early glare.—[MS. erased.]
[524] End of Canto 9th, Augt. Sept., 1822. B.