Transcriber's Notes

  1. Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.
  2. Missing text, truncated by printer:
    p. 131: "mother has gone far beyond our means. She hasn't"
  3. Several places in the text suggest missing or incorrect text:
    p. 15: "I met Effie the night a came home"
    replaced with "I met Effie the night I came home"
    p. 145: "Now go and much in train for the afternoon as you can."
    No replacement made.
    p. 120: "but she for certain that he would come"
    Replaced with "but she knew for certain that he would come"
  4. Superfluous, repeated disconnected text on two sequential lines on page 168:
    changed voice. "Before God, I couldn't help it."
    a changed voice. "Before God, I couldn't help it."
  5. Typographic errors corrected:
    seventh page of advertisements:
    "terrestial" to "terrestrial." ("stumbling-blocks in their terrestrial path")
    p. 24: "undestad" to "understand." ("Now you understand")
    p. 111: "helds" to "held." ("when she held the purse strings.")