which
he was contented to be reproached as for omissions in a most
necessary part of his place. The one, employing of spies, or
giving any countenance or entertainment to them. * * * The
other, the liberty of opening letters, upon a suspicion that
they might contain matter of a dangerous consequence." (One
sentence omitted.)

"The French and Spanish nations," said Louis XIV., "are so
united that they will henceforth be only one.... My
grandson, at the head of the Spaniards, will defend the
French. I, at the head of the French, will defend the
Spaniards."

"He who in former years," wrote Horace Walpole of his
father, "was asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow
... now never sleeps above an hour without waking."

If the passage omitted be of very considerable length, for instance if
it be a complete paragraph, or if a line of poetry be omitted, the
asterisks are placed in a line by themselves. There is a tendency to
confine the asterisk to such cases, and to use the full stop for
shorter ellipses. If a complete sentence be omitted, the number of
additional full stops is generally four; if a passage be omitted in
the middle of a sentence, the number is generally three.

When some of the letters of a name are omitted, their place is
supplied by a line or dash, whose length depends on the number of
letters omitted.

The scene of our story is laid in the town of B----. There
was one H----, who, I learned in after days, was seen
expiating some maturer offence in the hulks.

Blakesmoor in H----shire.

REFERENCES TO NOTES

Notes are generally placed at the foot of a page; though sometimes
they are collected at the end of a chapter, or even at the end of a
book. Various devices are in use for indicating the passage in the
text to which a note refers.

(1) The six reference signs: the "asterisk" (*), the "dagger" ([dagger
character]) (also called the "obelisk"), the "double dagger" ([double
dagger character]), the "section" ([section character]), the
"parallels" (||), the "paragraph" ([paragraph character]). They are
suitable only where the notes are placed at the foot of a page, and
are invariably used in the order in which we have mentioned them.

If the number of notes in one page exceeds six, the signs are doubled.
The seventh note is marked thus: **; the eighth, [dagger
character][dagger character]; the nint