Note 35 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
The passage “I should fear ... I must despair” is in S-R fr but not in F of F—A. There, in the margin, is the following: “Is it not the prerogative of superior virtue to pardon the erring and to weigh with mercy their offenses?” This sentence does not appear in Mathilda. Also in the margin of F of F—A is the number (9), the number of the S-R fr.