TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. fisherfolk/fisher-folk, Jefferies/Jeffries, newel-post/newel post, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Add ToC.
Fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings.
[Chapter III]
Change “The stanger was not in the least shy or self-conscious” to stranger.
[Chapter V]
“their estate was on too lonely. too wild, and too unproductive” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter VII]
“She stretched out her hand gracefully. and said, still with that” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter IX]
“Well. that was before my time, then the place was bought” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter X]
“nay, in a fashion more than perculiar; a fashion indecorous” to peculiar.
(“Don’t carry these petty quarrels too far” she said.) add a comma at the end of the quoted passage.
[Chapter XII]
“a hugh tank for the accommodation of oil” to huge.
“As clearly as as if she now spoke the words” delete the third as.
[Chapter XIV]
“defend herself against this invective. but, rising, said” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter XIX]
“She was a very radiant and gay and lovely creature. my dear” change the period to a comma.
“She didn’t come here, I hope. Amy, for protection.” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter XX]
“the sombre personality of Ambrosia. in her dark dress” change the period to a comma.
“Yet she found herself saying, almost against her own volition;” change the semicolon to a colon.
[Chapter XXII]
(“Very well”; assented Oliver, “we’ll begin on the ground floor”) delete the semicolon and place a comma at the end of the first quoted passage.
[Chapter XXV]
“They’r only standing out for a higher price” to They’re.
“bitterly resented by the independen spirit of the Cornishmen” to independent.
“going to take the watch on the lighthouse. and you can go with him” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter XXVI]
“to have children. and her place in the ordinary world” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter XXVII]
“with the late dawn, the bitter, chill, the stormy winter dawn” delete the comma after bitter.
“bringing with her from Rome. and which had cost Oliver so much” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter XXIX]
(“Yes, yes,” they both said at once “we saw the rockets.”) add a comma after once.
[Epilogue]
(were hardly aware that they played it—custom, “deep as life,”) change the final comma to a period.
“as she looked at her husband. so remote and cool” change the period to a comma.
[End of text]