TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
The Bernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig, 1896) edition was consulted for the changes listed below.
Obsolete and inconsistent spellings (e.g. negociations, laughing stock/laughing-stock, needlework/needle-work, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Add ToC.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings.
[Chapter I]
Change “he and the Sig-nor will be closetted for hours together” to closeted.
[Chapter III]
“Is she very stupid. very clumsy, very impertinent?” change period to a comma.
(“It ain’t that, Sir,” she said, shaking her head, “In course I was) change the last comma to a period.
[Chapter IV]
“she must shake like an aspen leaf I found ’er in the kitchen” add period after leaf.
[Chapter V]
Change “you were to see Doctor Steinberg again tonight?” to to-night.
[Chapter VI]
“that it does not all proceed from giving her medecine!” to medicine.
“they found themselves once more closetted with Hannah Stubbs” to closeted.
[Chapter VII]
(don’t take ’eed to your ways,” retorted his irate adversary, “Me and) change the last comma to a period.
“doings of Satan—and no more will. this young man ’ere!” delete the period.
[Chapter VIII]
“If he had announccd that he intended to murder Hannah Stubbs” to announced.
[Chapter IX]
“continue to call her Hannah has usual” to as.
[Chapter XII]
“when pressed, as late as ten o’clock at night, Now! go on with” change the second comma to a period.
“and ’ave you left them for good. and where are you living now?” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter XIII]
“Karl van Steinberg alone remaining behind for a few minutes” to von.
“if her condition were normal. or if they could trace any” change the period to a comma.
[Chapter XIV]
(but English is so hard,” she added, pathetically,) change the third comma to a period.
[Chapter XV]
“against her; the would accept any explanation she chose to child give—she was only...” change the to she and delete child.
(“O! don’t speak of such a thing pray! I shouldn’t) add comma after thing.
[Chapter XVI]
“but all this talk about Spiritualism is only got up, for want of a better excitement.” delete the comma.
[Chapter XVII]
“I lost her in so cruelly sudden a manner Only four days ill” add period after manner.
[End of text]