Williams.

[213] This judgment is based on the idea that _Elinor and Marianne_
(admittedly earlier than _First Impressions_) bore something of the same
relation to _Sense and Sensibility_ that _First Impressions_ did to
_Pride and Prejudice_.

[214] _Jane Austen and her Country-house Comedy_, by W. H. Helm.

[215] Her cousin, Mary Cooke.

[216] This may have been Bullock's Natural History Museum, at 22
Piccadilly. See _Notes and Queries_, 11 S.v. 514.

[217] In Pall Mall.

[218] Theophilus Cooke.

[219] See p. 6.

[220] White Friars, Canterbury--the residence of Mrs. Knight.

[221] He took command of the _Elephant_ on July 18, 1811, and became
again concerned in the Napoleonic Wars. _Sailor Brothers_ p. 226.

[222] The original of this letter is in the British Museum.

[223] _Sense and Sensibility._ We do not know whether the _Incomes_ were
ever altered.

[224] Mr. Hampson, like Mr. Walter, must have been related to Jane
through her grandmother (Rebecca Hampson), who married first, Dr.
Walter; secondly, William Austen. Mr. Hampson succeeded to a baronetcy,
but was too much of a republican to use the title.

[225] Jane and her niece Fanny seem to have invented a language of their
own--the chief point of which was to use a 'p' wherever possible. Thus
the piece of music alluded to was 'Strike the harp in praise of
Bragela.'

[226] We learn from a letter of Cassandra that he arrived in time to
spend (with his family) a week at Chawton Cottage. He had been absent
almost seven years. It was their first sight of his wife.

[227] The Comte d'Antraigues and his wife were both of them notable
people. _He_ had been elected deputy for the _noblesse_ to the
States-General in 1789, and had taken at first the popular side; but as
time went on he became estranged from Mirabeau, and was among the
earliest to emigrate in 1790. For the rest of his life he was engaged in
plotting to restore the Bourbons. His wife had been the celebrated
Madame St. Hubert of the Paris opera-house, and was the only woman ever
known to have inspired Bonaparte to break forth into verse. Both the
Count and Countess were murdered by their valet at Barnes, July 22,
1812. (_Un agent secret sous la Revolution et l'Empire: Le Comte
d'Antraigues_, par Leonce Pingaud. Paris, 1894.)

[228] A novel by Mrs. Brunton, published in 1810.

[229] We can give no explanation of the cousinship, if any existed, of
Miss Beckford; Miss Payne may have descended