Is He Popenjoy?

by Anthony Trollope

Transcriber's Note

Inconsistent hyphenation of "a-head" / "ahead", "farm-house" / "farmhouse", "fire-place" / "fireplace", "grand-daughter" / "granddaughter", "high-spirited" / "highspirited", "ill-natured" / "illnatured", "note-paper" / "notepaper", "play-fellow" / "playfellow", "half-a-dozen" / "half a dozen", and "cock-and-bull" / "cock and bull" has been retained. Inconsistent capitalization of "Marchioness" has also been retained as has the use of "grey" and "gray".

Here is a list of the minor typographical corrections made:

• [Changed single quote to double after "MINISTER" on cover page.]
• [Capitalized "he" in "He is thirty" on page 8.]
• [Changed period to comma after "said" on page 16.]
• ["Sarahs" changed to "Sarah" on page 25.]
• [End quote added after "Italy" on page 28.]
• [Original reads "ill-dawn" instead of "ill-drawn" on page 29.]
• [Quotation mark added before "when Brotherton came of age" on page 29.]
• [Original reads "andj" instead of "and" on page 33.]
• [Comma changed to period here after "closely" on page 48.]
• [Period added after "family" on page 46.]
• [Second "made" removed on page 60.]
• [End quote added after "quarrel" on page 64.]
• [End quote added after "cousin" on page 74.]
• [End quote added after "once" on page 82.]
• [End quote added after "boy" on page 83.]
• [Quotation mark added before "She would draw" on page 107.]
• [Removed second "was" on page 116.]
• [Double quote added before "We have been" on page 131.]
• [Original reads "de" instead of "he" on page 134.]
• [End quote added after "Sarah Germain" on page 135.]
• [Single quote changed to double after "duties." on page 137.]
• [Second "a" deleted on page 141.]
• [Original reads "intercouse" instead of "intercourse" on page 142.]
• [Original reads "musn't" instead of "mustn't" on page 149.]
• [Comma removed after "Lord George" on page 154.]
• [Single quote changed to double before "Ah" on page 187.]
• [Quotation added before "I feel like" on page 192.]
• [Comma changed to period after "undone" on page 193.]
• [End quote added after "George," on page 193.]
• [Period changed to a comma after "it" on page 199.]
• [End quote added after "matter?" on page 218.]
• [End quote added after "ball." On page 223.]
• [On page 237, I have used blockquoted text similar to that used elsewhere in the text for correspondence.]
• [New paragraph added before "B" on page 237.]
• [Period added after "herself" on page 253.]
• [Original reads "Dont" instead of "Don't" on page 258.]
• [Quotation mark removed from before "What" on page 293.]
• [End quote added after "happy." On page 295.]
• [Double quotes changed to single around "B." on page 301.]
• [Quotation mark added before "and unsay" on page 311.]
• [Comma changed to period after "Lord" on page 334.]
• [Original reads "dul" instead of "dull" on page 343.]
• [Period added after "out" on page 348.]
• [Original shows "s" instead of "is" on page 359.]
• [End quote added after "parish," on page 375.]
• [Quotation mark removed from before "It had been" on page 376.]
• [New paragraph added before "He had never" on page 416.]

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