Transcriber’s Note
Reading edition
This transcription follows the text of The British Library edition, published in 2016. However, the following errors have been corrected from the text:
A mismatched quotation mark was repaired (Chapter VI).
“unwieldly” was changed to “unwieldy” (Chapter VII).
“appears to thinks” was changed to “appears to think” (Chapter VIII).
“Aways” was changed to “Always” (Chapter IX).
“Masons’ ” was changed to “Mason’s” (Chapter XIII).
“assumptions seems” was changed to “assumptions seem” (Chapter XVI).
All other seeming errors and unusual phrasings have been left unchanged.