been calculated by foreknowledge to produce them.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“Ned must learn something of the characteristics of the Catechism, and simple cottage devotion.” CHAPTER V. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“Make the following scene emblematic of the world’s treatment of a dissenter.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“Yankee characteristics should be shown in the schoolmaster’s manners.” CHAPTER VI. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“He had a sort of horror of violence, and of the strangeness that it should be done to him; this affected him more than the blow.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“Jokes occasionally about the schoolmaster’s thinness and lightness,--how he might suspend himself from the spider’s web and swing, etc.” _Note 3. Author’s note_.--“The Doctor and the Schoolmaster should have much talk about England.” _Note 4. Author’s note_.--“The children were at play in the churchyard.” _Note 5. Author’s note_.--“He mentions that he was probably buried in the churchyard there.” CHAPTER VII. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“Perhaps put this narratively, not as spoken.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“He was privately married to the heiress, if she were an heiress. They meant to kill him in the wood, but, by contrivance, he was kidnapped.” _Note 3. Author’s note_.--“They were privately married.” _Note 4. Author’s note_.--“Old descriptive letters, referring to localities as they existed.” _Note 5. Author’s note_.--“There should be symbols and tokens, hinting at the schoolmaster’s disappearance, from the first opening of the scene.” CHAPTER VIII. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“They had got up in remarkably good case that morning.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“The stranger may be the future master of the Hospital.--Describe the winter day.” _Note 3. Author’s note_.--“Describe him as clerical.” _Note 4. Author’s note_.--“Represent him as a refined, agreeable, genial young man, of frank, kindly, gentlemanly manners.” _Note 5._ Alternative reading: “A clergyman.” CHAPTER IX. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“Make the old grave-digger a _laudator temporis acti_,--especially as to burial customs.” _Note 2._ Instead of “written,” as in the text, the author probably meant to write “read.” _Note 3._ The MS. has “delight,” but “a light” is evidently intended. _Note 4. Author’s note_.--“He aims a blow, perhaps with his pipe, at the boy, which Ned wards off.” CHAPTER X. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“No longer could play at quarter-staff with Ned.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“Referring to places and people in England: the Bloody Footstep sometimes.” _Note 3._ In the original the following occurs, but marked to indicate that it was to be omitted: “And kissed his hand to her, and laughed feebly; and that was the last that she or anybody, the last glimpse they had of Doctor Grimshawe alive.”