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CHAPTER II
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I will cite a few instances from the Autobiography.

The italics are mine: "I remember reading in my childhood certain manuscripts containing Scriptural Sonnets, besides other verses and enigmas," etc.

Page 7.
[On page 27.] "Many pale cripples went into the Church leaning on crutches who came out carrying them on their shoulders." It is awkward, because at the first glance it seems to say that the cripples went in leaning on crutches which went out carrying the cripples on their shoulders.

It would have cost her no trouble to put her "who" after her "cripples." I blame her a little; I think her proof-reader should have been shot.

We may let her capital C pass, but it is another awkwardness, for she is talking about a building, not about a religious society.
"Marriage and Parentage" [Chapter-heading.


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