My father and mother made the same match for you
last night, and are very much pleased with it.
_He_ is a beauty of my mother's.

FOOTNOTES:

[78] Harry was one of the Digweeds--Edward Austen's tenants at
Steventon--who shared with the Rectory party the _deputed_ right of
shooting over the Manor (_Persuasion_, ch. iii.). The _New English
Dictionary_ (s.v.) says 'The deputation was necessary to constitute a
gamekeeper; but it was also frequently used as a means of giving to
friends the privilege of shooting game over an estate.' The term of
endearment has of course no particular significance.

[79] _The Midnight Bell_, a German story (London, 1798), is ascribed in
the _Dictionary of National Biography_ to Francis Lathom. This book is
mentioned in chapter vi. of _Northanger Abbey_.

[80] Afterwards, as George Knight, a well-known Kent cricketer, and one
of the principal agents in the introduction of round-arm bowling.

[81] _Battleridge, an historical tale founded on facts._ By a lady of
quality [? Mrs. Cooke], London, 1799.

[82] The first part of this letter is inserted in Chapter VI.

[83] James Edward Austen (Leigh), the author of the _Memoir_; in his
youth always (after his uncle and cousin had become 'Edward Knight')
known as 'Edward Austen.'

[84] _Arthur Fitz-Albini_, a novel [by Sir Egerton Brydges]. London,
1798.

[85] First Lord of the Admiralty, 1794-1801.

[86] George Daysh, clerk in the Ticket Office, Navy Office.

[87] The Basingstoke doctor.

[88] Anne Elliot, in _Persuasion_, thought that a cap would be a very
suitable present for her sister Mary, who was a young woman, and who
certainly wished to remain so.

[89] One of the Lords of the Admiralty: afterwards Lord Gambier.

[90] On his Aunt Jane's birthday.

[91] General Mathew, father of James Austen's first wife.

[92] The Miss Austens seem to have had a dress allowance of L20 a year.
Cf. _Brabourne_, vol. i. p. 189.

[93] Brighton had possibly been suggested to her brother Edward as an
alternative for Bath.

[94] This is of course an amusing mis-statement of the writer's real
opinion. See p. 83.

[95] The Hon. Mary Leigh, of Stoneleigh.

[96] Eliza de Feuillide.

[97] Lady Williams.

[98] I.e. without powder or pigtail.

CHAPTER IX

THE LEIGH PERROTS AND BATH

1799-1800

Mrs. Austen's brother, James Leigh Perrot, and his wife had for many
years led a prosperous and uneventful lif