{102} This mahogany desk, which has done good service to the public, is
now in the possession of my sister, Miss Austen.

{107} At this time, February 1813, 'Mansfield Park' was nearly finished.

{110} The present Lady Pollen, of Redenham, near Andover, then at a
school in London.

{117} See Mrs. Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol. ii. p. 215.

{122} It was her pleasure to boast of greater ignorance than she had any
just claim to. She knew more than her mother tongue, for she knew a good
deal of French and a little of Italian.

{126} Mrs. Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol. ii. p. 53.

{130} This must have been 'Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk.'

{136a} A greater genius than my aunt shared with her the imputation of
being _commonplace_. Lockhart, speaking of the low estimation in which
Scott's conversational powers were held in the literary and scientific
society of Edinburgh, says: 'I think the epithet most in vogue concerning
it was "commonplace."' He adds, however, that one of the most eminent of
that society was of a different opinion, who, when some glib youth
chanced to echo in his hearing the consolatory tenet of local mediocrity,
answered quietly, "I have the misfortune to think differently from you--in
my humble opinion Walter Scott's sense is a still more wonderful thing
than his genius."--Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vol. iv. chap. v.