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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