TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. moneylender/money-lender, note-book/note book, womenfolk/women-folk, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Add ToC.
Punctuation: a few missing/invisible periods.
[Chapter Two]
Change “a gorgeous carved sapphire make into a pendant” to made.
“very shortly after the terribly tragedy, with instructions” to terrible.
[Chapter Six]
“on a considerable snm of money for its purchase” to sum.
[Chapter Eleven]
“The Storments had a small private sitting-room” to Stormonts.
[Chapter Seventeen]
“with something of a snarl in his voiec” to voice.
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