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[ Schlegel.]
2 (return)
[ Introduction to the Choephori.]
3 (return)
[ It is now called an
Epic-drama, Footnote 1909.]
4 (return)
[ Through this tangle of
intentions the writer has in the main followed Thiers, whose access to
documents would seem to authenticate his details of the famous scheme for
England’s ruin.]
5 (return)
[ These historic facings,
which, I believe, won for the local [Footnote old 39th: regiment the
nickname of “Green Linnets,” have been changed for no apparent reason.
Footnote They are now restored—1909]
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[ The remains of the lonely
hut occupied by the beacon-keepers, consisting of some half-buried
brickbats, and a little mound of peat overgrown with moss, are still
visible on the elevated spot referred to. The two keepers themselves, and
their eccentricities and sayings are traditionary, with a slight disguise
of names.]
7 (return)
[ “Le projet existe encore
aux archives de la marine que Napoléon consultait incessamment; il sentait
que cette marine depuis Louis XIV. avait fait de grandes choses: le plan
de l’Expedition d’Egypte et de la descente en Angleterre se trouvaient au
ministere de la marine.”—CAPEFIGUE: L’Europe pendant le Consulat et
l’Empire.]
8 (return)
[ This weather-beaten old
building, though now an hotel, is but little altered.]
9 (return)
[ Soph. Trach. 1266-72.]
10 (return)
[ This scene is a little
antedated, to include it in the Act to which it essentially belongs.]
11 (return)
[ “Quel bonhour que je
n’aie aucun enfant pour recueillir mon horrible heritage et qui soit
charge du poids de mon nom!”— [Footnote Extract from the poignant
letter to his wife written on this night.—See Lanfrey iii. 374.]
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[ In those days the
hind-part of the harbour adjoining this scene was so named, and at high
tides the waves washed across the isthmus at a point called “The Narrows.”
13 (return)
[ This General’s name
should, it is said, be pronounced in three syllables, nearly
PRESH-EV-SKY.]
14 (return)
[ It has been conjectured
of late that these adventurous spirits were Sir Robert Wilson and,
possibly, Lord Hutchinson, present there at imminent risks of their
lives.]
15 (return)
[ The traditional present
of the rose was probably on this occasion, though it is not quite matter
of certainty.]
16 (return)
[ At this date.]
17 (return)
[ So Madame Metternich to
her husband in reporting this interview. But who shall say!]
18 (return)
[ The writer has been
unable to discover what became of this unhappy lady and her orphaned
infants.—[Footnote The foregoing note, which appeared in the first
edition of this drama, was the means of bringing from a descendant of the
lady referred to the information she remarried, and lived and died at
Venice; and that both her children grew up and did well.—1909:
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[ Thomas Young of
Sturminster-Newton; served twenty-one years in the Fifteenth [Footnote
King’s: Hussars; died 1853; fought at Vitoria, and Waterloo.]
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[ Hussars, it may be
remembered, used to wear a pelisse, dolman, or “sling-jacket” [Footnote as
the men called: , which hung loosely over the shoulder. The writer is able
to recall the picturesque effect of this uniform.]
21 (return)
[ Sheridan.]
22 (return)
[ This famous ball has
become so embedded in the history of the Hundred Days as to be an integral
part of it. Yet in spite of the efforts that have been made to locate the
room which saw the memorable gathering [Footnote by the present writer
more than thirty years back, among other enthusiasts: , a dispassionate
judgment must deny that its site has as yet been proven. Even Sir W.
Fraser is not convincing. The event happened less than a century ago, but
the spot is almost as phantasmal in its elusive mystery as towered
Camelot, the palace of Priam, or the hill of Calvary.]
23 (return)
[ The spelling of the date
is used.]
24 (return)
[ Samuel Clark; born 1779, died 1857. Buried at West Stafford,
Dorset.]
25 (return)
[ One of the many Waterloo men known to the writer in his youth,
John Bentley of the Fusileer Guards, use to declare that he lay down on
the ground in such weariness that when food was brought him he could not
eat it, and slept till next morning on an empty stomach. He died at
Chelsea Hospital, 187-, aged eighty six.]
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[ Transcriber’s note: This
footnote is an excerpt in Greek from the “Magnificat” canticle, the Latin
character equivalent being “katheile DYNASTAS apo THrono,” or “He has put
down the mighty from their thrones.”—D.L.]
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[ Hor. Epis. i, 12.]