TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
Reading edition
The following misspellings (assumed to be dialects or drunken slurs) in dialogue have been preserved:
[Chapter XI]
“is to my knowledge a scholard and an angler”
[Chapter XIII]
“or d’ye prefer somethig i’ the psalmody fashion”
“It’s cur-curdled the milk o’ human kideness in me”
[Chapter XXXIX]
“where ha’ you been, you inhospitalable scamp”
“Understad?—understad, you conceited peddler?”
Alterations to the text:
Add TOC.
Punctuation corrections: missing periods, quotation mark pairing, etc.
Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies (e.g. blythe/blithe, pellmell/pell-mell, fruit-trees/fruit trees, etc.) have been preserved.
[Chapter III]
Change “that gave out a pleasant fragnance” to fragrance.
[Chapter IV]
“He left the old city and took the Stackbridge road” to Stockbridge.
[Chapter VI]
“The other raisd his head in staring surprise” to raised.
[Chapter VIII]
“and her dress and velvet spenser” to spencer.
“Nature’s purpose would induce receovery” to recovery.
“She smiled back delighfully” to delightfully.
[Chapter IX]
“a sailing rook came through the leafly canopy” to leafy.
[Chapter X]
“In this conection were two matters for” to connection.
“His näive self-importance, half-nullified” to naïve.
[Chapter XXXI]
“Humming ... a fragrant of some late-heard melody” to fragment.
[Chapter XXXIV]
“I should like to ask yuo a question” to you.
[Chapter XXXVII]
“this is Catain Luvaine, Whimple, from whose” to Captain.
“for all his instinctive astion his face had taken a dark flush” to action.
[Chapter LIV]
“A life of torment for a minute of esctasy” to ecstasy.
[End of Text]