Four and a half lines of verse (which I have not been able to identify, though they sound Shelleyan--are they Mary's own ?) are omitted: of the stars she says, the wind is in the tree But they are silent;--still they roll along Immeasurably distant; & the vault Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds Still deepens its unfathomable depth.
[79] If Mary quotes Coleridge's _Ancient Mariner_ intentionally here, she is ironic, for this is no merciful rain, except for the fact that it brings on the illness which leads to Mathilda's death, for which she longs.
[80] This quotation from _Christabel_ (which suggests that the preceding echo is intentional) is not in _F of F--B_.
[81] Cf.

the description which opens _Mathilda_.
[82] Among Lord Abinger's papers, in Mary's hand, are some comparable (but very bad) fragmentary verses addressed to Mother Earth.
[83] At this point four sheets are cut out of the notebook.

They are evidently those with pages numbered 217 to 223 which are among the _S-R fr_.

They contain the conclusion of the story, ending, as does _F of F--B_ with Mathilda's words spoken to Diotima in the Elysian Fields: "I am here, not with my father, but listening to lessons of wisdom, which will one day bring me to him when we shall never part.
THE END." Some passages are scored out, but not this final sentence.
Tenses are changed from past to future.

The name _Herbert_ is changed to _Woodville_.