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Note 1. Author's note.—"Conferred their best qualities": an alternative phrase for "done their utmost."

Note 2. Author's note.—"Let the old man have a beard as part of the costume."

Note 1. Author's note.—"Describe him as delirious, and the scene as adopted into his delirium."

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;