a35362
April 27, 2012, 4:48am
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Could you look at Chapter 5 “Nicholas Starts for Yorkshire…” and tell me how the third paragraph begins? Is it “The poor lady nearly choked himself…” or “The poor lad …”? My Kindle edition and two other editions I Googled all say lady , but that doesn’t make any sense. Somebody goofed and everybody else copied the goof.
Well here it is from project Gutenberg:
The box was packed at last, and then there came supper, with some little delicacy provided for the occasion, and as a set-off against the expense of which, Kate and her mother had feigned to dine when Nicholas was out. The poor lad nearly choked himself by attempting to partake of it, and almost suffocated himself in affecting a jest or two, and forcing a melancholy laugh. Thus, they lingered on till the hour of separating for the night was long past; and then they found that they might as well have given vent to their real feelings before, for they could not suppress them, do what they would. So, they let them have their way, and even that was a relief.
Penguin Classics edition has lad .
Kozmik
April 27, 2012, 2:27pm
5
Gutenberg saves the day, again.
bup
April 27, 2012, 2:39pm
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Sometimes Gutenberg is wrong, though.
But *lad *makes sense; his mom and sister faked eating to offset the expense of the meal.
My complete Dickens (P F Collier & Sons) has “lad” … but it’s in the middle of the 2nd paragraph, not the 3rd paragraph.
