Transcriber’s Note
This transcription is based on the British edition published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1916. Scans of this edition are available through the Hathi Trust Digital Library at:
[ catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100597585]
As an additional resource, the American edition published by George H. Doran in 1916 was also used. Scans of this edition are posted by the Internet Archive at:
[ archive.org/details/mendelstoryofyou00canniala]
The right margins of several page scans of the Unwin edition available through the Hathi Trust were cut off, so the Doran edition was used to correct for the missing text. No attempt was made to list all these corrections.
The following changes to the text were noted:
- Cover: The cover image is from the Doran edition.
- p. 20: what you want, that you shall have. . .—Added an additional period at the end of the sentence in keeping with the Doran edition.
- p. 20: “These children have only to go out into London and all will be given to them,”—Changed the comma to a period.
- p. 42: their voices seemed to him to come from very far away, The unheaval had stunned him, had destroyed his volition and paralysed his dreams.—Changed the comma after “away” to a period and “unheaval” to “upheaval” in keeping with the Doran edition.
- p. 48: “That’ll do. That’ll do,” said Moscowitch.—Changed “Moscowitch” to “Moscowitsch” for consistency.
- p. 84: “No,” said the Professor.” I don’t know what that is. It certainly isn’t drawing.”—Changed the closing quotation mark after “Professor” to an opening quotation mark before “I”.
- p. 84: and he says: “I mean to say, that isn’t drawing.—Changed the opening double quotation mark to an opening single quotation mark.
- p. 116: You may renember her—glorious chestnut hair, big blue eyes, but as shy as a little mouse.—Changed “renember” to “remember”.
- p. 139: And then when I get home and it is just a house and I am just a girl living it it—Changed the first “it” after “living” to “in”.
- p. 158: hair brushed back from a round, well shaped brow.—Inserted a hyphen between “well” and “shaped”.
- p. 184: as they went through their Public Schools and were more and compressed into type—Inserted the word “more” between “and” and “compressed” in keeping with the Doran edition.
- p. 189: “But he cares for poetry and the Bible and he loves pictures. . .”—Added an additional period at the end of the sentence in keeping with the Doran edition.
- p. 216: finding some dam fool to take you to a music-hall—For consistency and in keeping with the Doran edition, changed “dam” to “damn”.
- p. 217: When you’re starving you don’t want chocolates. . .—Added an additional period at the end of the sentence in keeping with the Doran edition.
- p. 234: He says its something deeper—Changed “its” to “it’s”.
- p. 245: No, no, no! . . . .—Deleted the fourth period in keeping with the Doran edition.
- p. 266: “What has happened?” Does he knock her about?”—Deleted the closing quotation mark after “happened?”
- p. 271: “That is all very well while you are young ” said Logan—Inserted a comma between “young” and the closing quotation mark.
- p. 290: the furniture was old and exquisite. . .—Added an additional period at the end of the sentence in keeping with the Doran edition.
- p. 297: and through that love his passion for art—Added a period at the end of the sentence.
- p. 298: Cluny.”—Inserted an opening double quotation mark at the beginning of the sentence.
- p. 316: “O God! O God! O God!’—Changed the closing single quotation mark to a closing double quotation mark.
- p. 341: You said you were’nt going to dance.—Changed “were’nt” to “weren’t”.
- p. 344: “Yes You are very honest—Added a period after “Yes”.
- p. 351: “You can’t stop it,” said Logan—Added a period at the end of the sentence.
- p. 358: “If it was my house, I would kick them out.’—Changed the closing single quotation mark to a closing double quotation mark.
- p. 380: “What do you want, then?—Added a closing double quotation mark at the end of the sentence.
- p. 397: “Then it’s a sketch and not a picture.’—Changed the closing single quotation mark to a closing double quotation mark.
- p. 414: clouds heaped up by the driving wind—beautiful, beautiful. . .—Added a fourth period at the end of the sentence.
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