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[ Schlegel.]

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[ Introduction to the Choephori.]

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[ It is now called an Epic-drama, Footnote 1909.]

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[ 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.]

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[ 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.]

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[ “Le projet existe encore aux archives de la marine que Napoleon 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.]

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[ This weather-beaten old building, though now an hotel, is but little altered.]

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[ Soph. Trach. 1266-72.]

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[ This scene is a little antedated, to include it in the Act to which it essentially belongs.]

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[ “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.”

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[ This General's name should, it is said, be pronounced in three syllables, nearly PRESH-EV-SKY.]

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[ 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.]

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[ The traditional present of the rose was probably on this occasion, though it is not quite matter of certainty.]

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[ At this date.]

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[ So Madame Metternich to her husband in reporting this interview. But who shall say!]

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[ 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.]

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[ Sheridan.]

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[ 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.]

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[ The spelling of the date is used.]

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[ Samuel Clark; born 1779, died 1857. Buried at West Stafford, Dorset.]

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[ 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.]