Transcriber’s Note
This transcription is based on images made available by the University of California and Google:
books.google.com/books?id=0gMFAQAAIAAJ
These scans are also available through the HathiTrust Digital Library:
hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4095579
The following changes were made to the printed text:
- p. 7: The Vounteers’ Camp and all its attendant horrors—Changed “Vounteers” to “Volunteers”.
- p. 46: oh, well, we musn’t argue.—Changed “musn’t” to “mustn’t”.
- p. 48: “Dear boy, we must be practical. It may take a—a very long time indeed.—Added a closing double quotation mark after “indeed.”
- p. 61: the miracle that anything could be so beautiful never to see a bird again—Added a comma after “beautiful”.
- p. 79: Were there any blind boys in Norbury of his own, nice boys whom—Added “age” after “of his own”.
- p. 87: Mrs. Crayshaw would not be be able to do any visiting—Deleted the second “be”.
- p. 102: “Thanks, Nan, I’m sure I do.”—Added a paragraph break before this sentence.
- p. 113: All over at the contact her hands he trembled—Added “of” after “contact”.
- p. 123: he ought to take a a pride in the hatred of the world.—Deleted the second “a”.
- p. 125: “It’s the cancer, Joan, that what I am so terrified about.—Changed “that” to “that’s”.
- p. 129: and the blue bottles seethed with anger at being disturbed by someone—Changed “blue bottles” to “bluebottles” for consistency.
- p. 133: Three blue bottles, fanning themselves angrily—Changed “blue bottles” to “bluebottles” for consistency.
- p. 155: “Run along, Joan and play.”—Inserted a comma after “Joan”.
- p. 189: You will be coming to-morrow to have your hand looked to, wont you?—Changed “wont” to “won’t”.
- p. 217: “John,” he said, pulling his arm, “how silent you are.”—Changed “he” to “she”.
- p. 223: but we could have a a gay time there—Deleted the second “a”.
- p. 226: I won’t have you say thinks like that about him.—Changed “thinks” to “things”.
- p. 226: Anyway I shouldn’t have been here if it wasn’t for him?”—Changed the question mark after “him” to a period.
- p. 226: “Why had he made a compliment like that?—Deleted the opening double quotation mark before “Why”.
- p. 227: He was brought to it, and by your lot too.—Added a closing double quotation mark after “too.”
- p. 227: them saying that he didn’ do his duty—Changed “didn’” to “didn’t”.
- p. 235: The cock was quiet and dignified this morning rather sleepy.—Inserted a comma after “morning”.
- p. 236: “I wont.”—Changed “wont” to “won’t”.
- p. 249: “But Emily, painters always go to the counry for inspiration.—Changed “counry” to “country”.
- p. 254: through vilages where Barwood was repeated—Changed “vilages” to “villages”.
- p. 256: What was this—Added a question mark after “this”.
- p. 262: “No that would only have made a rush at the station.”—Added a comma after “No”.
- p. 265: “Only five minutes now.’—Changed the closing single quotation mark at the end of the sentence to a closing double quotation mark.
- p. 283: so much or her was there, in the village—Changed “or” to “of”.
- p. 285: the bells sudden broke out again from along the street—Changed “sudden” to “suddenly”.