their partners. I have been laughing at them this
half-hour.'

So the first edition, the Hampshire and Winchester Editions. Bentley,
however, reads 'quizzes,' which seems correct, as the word 'quizzer'
usually bore an active sense, and 'quiz' a passive.

3. Chapter XI:--

They all spent the evening together at Thorpe's.

It seems improbable that Jane Austen can have written anything other
than 'at the Thorpes''; but no edition has had the courage to make the
change.

4. Chapter XIII:--

And with these words she broke away and hurried
off. Thorpe would have darted after her, but
Morland withheld him. 'Let her go, let her go, if
she will go. She is as obstinate as----'

Thorpe never finished the simile, for it could
hardly have been a proper one.

So the first edition reads, followed by Bentley and the Winchester
Edition. The Hampshire Edition boldly gives 'Morland,' and this seems
the natural solution. The only alternative is to break up the sentence
thus:--

. . . but Morland withheld him. 'Let her go, let her
go, if she will.' 'She is as obstinate as----'
Thorpe never finished the simile, &c.

But this does not seem so natural; nor do we imagine that the
impropriety of the simile would necessarily have debarred Thorpe from
completing it.

5. Chapter XXII:--

And for his part, to his uncritical palate, the
tea was as well flavoured from the clay of
Staffordshire as from that of Dresden or Seve. But
this was quite an old set, purchased two years
ago.

So the first edition, and the Hampshire and Winchester Editions; but
Bentley emends to 'Sevres,' which must surely be correct.

6. Chapter XXVI:--

By ten o'clock the chaise-and-four conveyed the
two from the abbey, and, after an agreeable drive
of almost twenty miles, they entered Woodston, &c.

So all the editions; but is not 'two' a misprint for 'trio'--i.e.
General Tilney, Eleanor, and Catherine? It is certain that Eleanor was
of the party, for we read a little later: 'His son and daughter's
observations were of a different kind. They had seldom seen him eat so
heartily at any table but his own'; nor is there anything to show that
General Tilney rode on horseback.

For an example of the use of the word 'trio' by Jane Austen, see
_Mansfield Park_, c