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[240] _Mansfield Park_ was also published at 18_s._, _Emma_ at L1 1_s._, whereas the first edition of _Sense and Sensibility_ had cost only 15_s._

[241] I.e. typographical.

[242] 'I do not rhyme to that dull elf Who cannot image to himself.'--_Marmion_, vi. 38.

[243] In _Mansfield Park_ (the scene of which is laid in Northamptonshire), a good deal turns on the steadfast determination of Edmund Bertram to be ordained.

[244] The caution observed at Steventon in preserving the secret of the authorship of the novels is shown in a little manuscript poem addressed by young Edward Austen to his aunt, when (at the age of fifteen or sixteen) he was at last informed that the two novels, which he already knew well, were by her.

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