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Mathilda

CHAPTER XII
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Shelley, _Prometheus Unbound_, I, 48: "the wingless, crawling hours." This phrase ("my part in submitting ...

minutes") and the remainder of the paragraph are an elaboration of the simple phrase in _F of F--A_, "my part in enduring it--," with its ambiguous pronoun.
The last page of Chapter VIII shows many corrections, even in the MS of _Mathilda_.

It is another passage that Mary seems to have written in some agitation of spirit.Cf.note 26.
[51] In _F of F--A_ there are several false starts before this sentence.

The name there is Welford; on the next page it becomes Lovel, which is thereafter used throughout _The Fields of Fancy_ and appears twice, probably inadvertently, in _Mathilda_, where it is crossed out.

In a few of the _S-R fr_ it is Herbert.


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