Using the Vernacular
The original reads:
"It's that medicine I took, in order to bring it off" (V. Eliot 13).
"Medicine" and "in order" were marked out by Vivian Eliot, and pills is written in the margins, in order to give Lil a more common dialect. Eliot retained this change, because he wanted to keep the Cockney voices of the speakers intact.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting
"It's that medicine I took, in order to bring it off" (V. Eliot 13).
"Medicine" and "in order" were marked out by Vivian Eliot, and pills is written in the margins, in order to give Lil a more common dialect. Eliot retained this change, because he wanted to keep the Cockney voices of the speakers intact.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting