TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Changes made to correct apparent printing errors as follows:

p. 58: Qu’ importe? changed to Qu’importe?.

p. 215: Inverted commas added after “How many miles, may I ask?.

p. 237: Inverted commas added before You shall have your cousin, then!”.

p. 275: Dash added to did not know—that Gilbert's name.

p. 301: Missing possessive apostrophe and S added to the Curé’s piece of information.

p. 340: Double inverted commas added after ‘a merchant of Bordeaux’.

p. 469: paroxyms changed to paroxysms.

Otherwise, inconsistencies and possible errors have been preserved.