Transcriber's Note
Reading edition
Inconsistent hyphenation of "a-head" / "ahead", "farm-house" / "farmhouse", "fire-place" / "fireplace", "grand-daughter" / "granddaughter", "high-spirited" / "highspirited", "ill-natured" / "illnatured", "note-paper" / "notepaper", "play-fellow" / "playfellow", "half-a-dozen" / "half a dozen", and "cock-and-bull" / "cock and bull" has been retained. Inconsistent capitalization of "Marchioness" has also been retained as has the use of "grey" and "gray".
Here is a list of the minor typographical corrections made:
Changed single quote to double after "MINISTER" on cover page.
Capitalized "he" in "He is thirty" on page 8.
Changed period to comma after "said" on page 16.
"Sarahs" changed to "Sarah" on page 25.
End quote added after "Italy" on page 28.
Original reads "ill-dawn" instead of "ill-drawn" on page 29.
Quotation mark added before "when Brotherton came of age" on page 29.
Original reads "andj" instead of "and" on page 33.
Comma changed to period here after "closely" on page 48.
Period added after "family" on page 46.
Second "made" removed on page 60.
End quote added after "quarrel" on page 64.
End quote added after "cousin" on page 74.
End quote added after "once" on page 82.
End quote added after "boy" on page 83.
Quotation mark added before "She would draw" on page 107.
Removed second "was" on page 116.
Double quote added before "We have been" on page 131.
Original reads "de" instead of "he" on page 134.
End quote added after "Sarah Germain" on page 135.
Single quote changed to double after "duties." on page 137.
Second "a" deleted on page 141.
Original reads "intercouse" instead of "intercourse" on page 142.
Original reads "musn't" instead of "mustn't" on page 149.
Comma removed after "Lord George" on page 154.
Single quote changed to double before "Ah" on page 187.
Quotation added before "I feel like" on page 192.
Comma changed to period after "undone" on page 193.
End quote added after "George," on page 193.
Period changed to a comma after "it" on page 199.
End quote added after "matter?" on page 218.
End quote added after "ball." On page 223.
On page 237, I have used blockquoted text similar to that used elsewhere in the text for correspondence.
New paragraph added before "B" on page 237.
Period added after "herself" on page 253.
Original reads "Dont" instead of "Don't" on page 258.
Quotation mark removed from before "What" on page 293.
End quote added after "happy." On page 295.
Double quotes changed to single around "B." on page 301.
Quotation mark added before "and unsay" on page 311.
Comma changed to period after "Lord" on page 334.
Original reads "dul" instead of "dull" on page 343.
Period added after "out" on page 348.
Original shows "s" instead of "is" on page 359.
End quote added after "parish," on page 375.
Quotation mark removed from before "It had been" on page 376.
New paragraph added before "He had never" on page 416.