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 by: Anton Shepelev - Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:50 UTC

Hello, all
In "The Mysteries of Udolpho" I have met with what struck me
as a very strange case of stranding preposition, viz.:

She could not witness his sorrow, without being anxious
to know the subject of.

My first impulse was to append "it" or "the which", because
I think I had never before seen a stranding preposition
without a relative or inerrogative pronoun. Do you perceive
this sentnece as I do?

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 by: John Bull - Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:35 UTC

Yes. It reads as if the end of the sentence is missing. I cannot really see what else 'the subject of' could refer to excpet the sorrow. Seems almost to be a typographical or typesetting error?

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