_Note 2. Author’s note_.--“Make the whole scene very dreamlike and feverish.” _Note 3. Author’s note_.--“There should be a slight wildness in the patient’s remark to the surgeon, which he cannot prevent, though he is conscious of it.” _Note 4. Author’s note_.--“Notice the peculiar depth and intelligence of his eyes, on account of his pain and sickness.” _Note 5. Author’s note_.--“Perhaps the recognition of the pensioner should not be so decided. Redclyffe thinks it is he, but thinks it as in a dream, without wonder or inquiry; and the pensioner does not quite acknowledge it.” _Note 6._ The following dialogue is marked to be omitted or modified in the original MS.; but it is retained here, in order that the thread of the narrative may not be broken. _Note 7. Author’s note_.--“The patient, as he gets better, listens to the feet of old people moving in corridors; to the ringing of a bell at stated periods; to old, tremulous voices talking in the quadrangle; etc., etc.” _Note 8._ At this point the modification indicated in Note 5 seems to have been made operative: and the recognition takes place in another way. CHAPTER XIV. _Note 1._ This paragraph is left incomplete in the original MS. _Note 2._ The words “Rich old bindings” are interlined here, indicating, perhaps, a purpose to give a more detailed description of the library and its contents. CHAPTER XV. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“I think it shall be built of stone, however.” _Note 2._ This probably refers to some incident which the author intended to incorporate in the former portion of the romance, on a final revision. CHAPTER XVI. _Note 1._ Several passages, which are essentially reproductions of what had been previously treated, are omitted from this chapter. It belongs to an earlier version of the romance. CHAPTER XVII. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“Redclyffe shows how to find, under the surface of the village green, an old cross.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“A circular seat around the tree.” _Note 3._ The reader now hears for the first time what Redclyffe recollected. CHAPTER XVIII. _Note 1. Author’s note_.--“The dinner is given to the pensioners, as well as to the gentry, I think.” _Note 2. Author’s note_.--“For example, a story of three brothers, who had a deadly quarrel among them more than two hundred years ago for the affections of a young lady, their cousin, who gave her reciprocal love to one of them, who immediately became the object of the deadly hatred of the two others. There seemed to be madness in their love; perhaps madness in the love of all three; for the result had been a plot to kidnap this unfortunate young man and convey him to America, where he was sold for a servant.” CHAPTER XIX.