t was deficient in.

It is difficult to believe that Jane Austen can have written anything so
clumsy as 'how always known no principle.' Such, however, is the reading
of all the editions, except the Hampshire Edition, which, without giving
any note, violently emends to 'how lacking the principle.'

6. Chapter XXXIX: Bentley, following the second edition, reads:--

Her days were spent in a kind of slow bustle; all
was busy without getting on, always behind hand
and lamenting it, without altering her ways;
wishing to be an economist, without contrivance or
regularity; dissatisfied with her servants,
without skill to make them better, and whether
helping or reprimanding, or indulging them,
without any power of engaging their respect.

Here the printer has been most ingenious. The text should, of course, be
'always busy,' as it is in the first edition and the Hampshire Edition.

7. Chapter XL: Bentley's edition, following the early editions, reads:--

' . . . for Henry is in Norfolk; business called him
to Everingham ten days ago, or perhaps he only
pretended the call, for the sake of being
travelling at the same time that you were.'

Mr. Johnson and the Winchester Edition read 'to call.' There seems
little doubt that 'the call' is the right reading.

8. Chapter XLVII: Bentley and nearly all editions read:--

Time would undoubtedly abate somewhat of his
sufferings, but still it was a sort of thing which
he never could get entirely the better of; and as
to his ever meeting with any other woman who
could--it was too impossible to be named but with
indignation.

The broken sentence means 'a woman who could console him for the loss of
Mary.'

Mr. Johnson's editions make nonsense of the passage by substituting a
comma for the dash after 'could.'

9. Chapter XLVIII: Bentley, following the early editions, reads:--

Maria had destroyed her own character, and he
would not, by a vain attempt to restore what never
would be restored, be affording his sanction to
vice, or in seeking to lessen its disgrace, be
anywise accessory to introducing such misery in
another man's family, as he had known himself.

Mr. Johnson and the Winchester Edition read 'by affording his sanction
to vice,'