emendation would have satisfied Bentley the critic,
it eventually satisfied Bentley the publisher, who adopted it in his
later editions.

2. Chapter I, a page or two further on, all editions read:--

Be it known, then, that Sir Walter, like a good
father (having met with one or two private
disappointments in very unreasonable
applications), prided himself on remaining single
for his dear daughter's sake. For one daughter,
his eldest, he would really have given up
anything, which he had not been very much tempted
to do. . . . His two other children were of very
inferior value.

This is one more instance of a misplaced apostrophe, for, as Dr. Verrall
pointed out in the _Cambridge Observer_, what Jane Austen must have
written is 'for his dear daughters' sake.' Even if the antithesis
implied in the next sentence did not demand this, it is obvious that the
correct Sir Walter would never have allowed himself to state that he
remained single for the sake of one daughter only. Indeed, we have a
proof of this in Chapter V, when Elizabeth says: 'And as to my father, I
really should not have thought that he who has kept himself single so
long for our sakes need be suspected now.'

3. Chapter XXII: Bentley, following the first edition, reads:--

She was earnestly begged to return and dine, and
give them all the rest of the day, but her spirits
had been so long exerted that at present she felt
unequal to move and fit only for home, where she
might be sure of being as silent as she chose.

Promising to be with them the whole of the
following morning, therefore, she closed the
fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to
Camden Place, &c.

The Hampshire and Winchester Editions read 'more,' and this seems likely
to be correct; for those acquainted with the road to Camden Place will
know how inadvisable it would be for anyone 'unequal to move' to attempt
it.

4. Chapter XXIII: Nearly all editions read: 'The weather was
unfavourable, and she had grieved over the rain on her friend's
account.'

There was no particular 'friend' in the case, as Anne had promised to
spend her morning with the Musgroves, and it seems certain we should
read 'on her friends' account.'

FOOTNOTES:

[372] Our references throughout are to Bentley's edition of 1885-6.