[4] The Macdermots, p. 301.
[5] Here, as elsewhere, the reference is to Mr. John Lane’s series of Trollope reprints.
[6] The Macdermots of Ballycloran, p. 11.
[7] The Macdermots of Ballycloran, pp. 174, 175.
[8] The usual “e” in the last syllable of this historic name is always omitted by Trollope, and so not written here.
[9] A Midsummer Night’s Dream, v. 1.
[10] Jeremiah vi. 16.
[11] The Warden, pp. 72-83.
[12] Adventures of a Younger Son. Published 1830. This was republished as recently as 1890, while shortly before his death (1881) Trelawny put forth the revised version of his Byron and Shelley Reminiscences.
[13] On this subject I am indebted to the present P. & O. chairman, Sir Thomas Sutherland, for an expression of opinion to this effect. The negotiation, indeed, was before his time, and he knows nothing about any record of it in the Company’s archives; but, he adds, “supposing the question to have been one of accelerating the transit of the mails through Egypt, the Company must surely have favoured an improvement which could, in no way that I could see, have been adverse to their interest.”