TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Marjorie Bowen was one of several pseudonyms used by Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long (née Campbell).
The Alston Rivers Ltd. edition (London, 1908) was consulted for most of the changes listed below.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. footboy/foot-boy, waiting woman/waiting-woman, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Formatting: abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings, and a missing period.
[Chapter One]
“and showed coffers rugs, armor, and weapons piled against” add comma after coffers.
[Chapter Six]
Change “sat with crossed legs and eat great red plums with relish” to ate.
“The wingéd gods circled low” to wingèd.
(“the King—my bethrothed’s brother—what if the Pope) to betrothed’s.
[Chapter Seven]
“One was in brone and azure for Luigi of Taranto” to bronze.
(“Why your living has cost me somewhat.) add comma after Why.
“I am interested in this manner between you and the Queen.” to matter.
[Chapter Twelve]
(“Knew!” the Contessa lauged. “My husband will never speak) to laughed.
“And eastward, along the banks of the Volturna” to Volturno.
[Chapter Sixteen]
“thought of the executions in the Palazza San Eligio” to Palazzo.
[Chapter Seventeen]
(“I am asking your advice,” she said, in a low restrained voice) add a comma after low.
“his usal lazy indolence in face and manner” to usual.
[Chapter Twenty-One]
“twisted a blossomless brier rose. the long, thorny stems” change the period to a comma.
“His clasp on her hands tightenend, and her cold countenance” to tightened.
[Chapter Twenty-Three]
(“It is not for yet to speak so of her,” she said) to ye.
(“For me, my life is over, Farewell.”) change the second comma to a period.
[Chapter Twenty-Five]
“He would be the intrument, not the judge” to instrument.
(grasping the embossed back of “Les Trois Virtu,”) to Vertu.
“ye could face her and knew her guilty, and wonder what to do” to know.
[Chapter Twenty-Eight]
“and from outside came heavy unusual sounds, the metallic clink” add a comma after heavy.
“and fasten an ermine côte hardi over the yellow silk” to côtehardie.
[Chapter Thirty-One]
(“No,” she said stanchly. “No—I fancied it.) to staunchly.
“they were ahorse and gathered before the Perlucchi Palace” to a-horse.
[End of text]