The entire passage, "Alas! I even now ...

remain unfinished.

I was," is on a slip of paper pasted on the page.
[49] The comparison to a Hermitess and the wearing of the "fanciful nunlike dress" are appropriate though melodramatic.

They appear only in _Mathilda_.

Mathilda refers to her "whimsical nunlike habit" again after she meets Woodville (see page 60) and tells us in a deleted passage that it was "a close nunlike gown of black silk." [50] Cf.