Cécile, ouvrage de mademoiselle Guichard. Il a publié ce dernier comme simple éditeur, quoiqu'il l'ait retouché”. . . .
Retouched. Just a little “retouched.” By someone who calls himself “un simple editeur.” Avec, no doubt, un coeur simple. Just doing a little retouching. For the final result of such editorial presumption, see what young badly-educated editors do nowadays when they start line-editing a grown-up’s prose, a matter dealt with by Jacques Barzun in A Word or Two Before You Go. — A Little Retouched
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