Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Crotchet Castle
- Appendix A Peacock’s Preface of 1837
- Appendix B Holograph Fragment of Chapter 4 (c. 1830)
- Appendix C Holograph Fragment of Chapter 5 (c. 1830)
- Appendix D Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1827)
- Appendix E Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1828)
- Appendix F Holograph Fragment of Chapter 16 (c. 1830)
- Appendix G ‘The Fate of a Broom: An Anticipation’ (1831, 1837)
- Note on the Text
- Emendations and Variants
- Ambiguous Line-End Hyphenations
- Explanatory Notes
- Select Bibliography
Appendix F - Holograph Fragment of Chapter 16 (c. 1830)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Crotchet Castle
- Appendix A Peacock’s Preface of 1837
- Appendix B Holograph Fragment of Chapter 4 (c. 1830)
- Appendix C Holograph Fragment of Chapter 5 (c. 1830)
- Appendix D Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1827)
- Appendix E Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1828)
- Appendix F Holograph Fragment of Chapter 16 (c. 1830)
- Appendix G ‘The Fate of a Broom: An Anticipation’ (1831, 1837)
- Note on the Text
- Emendations and Variants
- Ambiguous Line-End Hyphenations
- Explanatory Notes
- Select Bibliography
Summary
HOLOGRAPH fragment of an advanced draft of Chapter 16 of Crotchet Castle (c. 1830).
One small quarto leaf, folded twice, numbered 263 (altered from 253), possibly from a notebook. The text is written on both sides in a single column down the right-hand half of the page, the speakers’ names extending into the left-hand column.
Location: British Library (RP 6769).
Mr Chainmail
could find no trace of the
Captain. He Indeed he
sought him but in one
direction which was that
leading to the farm: where
he arrived in due time and
found Miss Susan alone.
He laid the newspaper on
the table as was his custom
and proceeded to converse
with the young lady: a
conversation of many pauses
as much of signs as of
words. The young lady
took up the paper and
turned it over and over
while she listened to Mr
Chainmail whom she found
every day more and more
agreeable when suddenly
her eye glanced on a passage
something which made her
change colour and dropping [page break]
on
the paper from on the ground
she star rose from her
seat exclaiming: It is
not yet too “Miserable must
she be who trusts any of
your faithless sex. = Never
never never will I endure
such misery twice.” And
she vanished up the stairs
Mr Chainmail was petrified
At length he exclaimed cried
aloud: Cornelius Agrippa
must have laid up a spell
on this accursed newspaper
and was turning out it over
to look for the source of
the mischief when Mrs
Llymry
Ap – Flummery made her
appearance.
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- Crotchet Castle , pp. 167 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016