TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Missing punctuation has been added and obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.
Archaic, alternate and misspellings of words have been retained to match the original work with the exception of those listed below.
Page 10: "Hr." changed to "Mr." (and I do assure you, Mr. Harkins, I hadn’t the faintest idea of hitting you that time.)
Page 22: "sudder" changed to "shudder" (she said, with a convulsive shudder.)
Page 61: "ad" changed to "and" (and he confessed he did that).
Page 77: "Jernygham" changed to "Jernyngham" (he was joined by Jernyngham and Howard).
Page 80: "Jernynham" changed to "Jernyngham" (Miss Clara Jernyngham had obtained the desire of her heart at last).
Page 92: duplicate word "and" removed (numbing the sense of pain, and leaving nothing).
Page 98: "these" changed to "there" (but her physician said there was no danger).
Page 103: "women" changed to "woman" (Oh, woman! if there be one spark of human nature).
Page 111: "catankerous" changed to "cantankerous" (and a cantankerous expression of countenance generally).
Page 119: "Toospyegs" changed to "Toosypegs" for spelling consistency.
Page 135: "yon" changed to "you" (let me tell you that!)
Page 147: "feeling" changed to "feelings" (Somehow, my feelings are always relieved when I'm with you, Miss Minnie.)
Page 163: "the" changed to "he" (as he held the candlestick aloft).
Page 168: "shufling" changed to "shuffling" (setting that ominously-named animal off at a shuffling dog-trot).
Page 174: "comet o" changed to "come to" (I hasn't lived forty odd years to come to dis in my old ages o' life.)
Page 197: "them" changed to "then" (Well, come along then; I'll tell her.)
Page 212: removed duplicate word "of" (Then the very demon of defiance sprung into the eyes of the elf).
Page 218: "loss" changed to "lose" (Since Heaven willed we should lose one angel it gave us).
Page 220: "befor" changed to "before" (it had made her gentle, tender, and more saintly then ever before.)
Page 236: "begining" changed to "beginning" (said her father, beginning to think there might be method in this madness.)
Page 238 and 240: "dispair" changed to "despair" (Reading no expression whatever in that "Book of Beauty" but the mildest sort of despair).
Page 245: "its" changed to "it's" (it's the most peculiar).
Page 245: "sunlght" changed to "sunlight" (the red rings of flame flashing out in the sunlight).
Page 245: "deepy" changed to "deeply" (and in that moment fell more deeply, deplorably, and helplessly in love than ever.)
Page 249: "microsope" changed to "microscope" (You may take a microscope and look from this until the week after next).
Page 276: "remainded" changed to "reminded" (until the air would have reminded you of "Ceylon's spicy breezes,").
Page 278: "hight" changed to "height" (as she drew herself up to her full height, and calmly said).
Page 279: "hight" changed to "height" (as she stood drawn up to her full height.)
Page 281: "gruffy" changed to "gruffly" (said the admiral, gruffly, putting it in his own mouth again.)
Page 330: "have" added for sentence continuity (they would have made her a prisoner at once.)
Page 339: "Day" changed to "Ray" (Dear Ray, do not look and speak so strangely.)
Page 346: "at" added for sentence continuity (And they had to take and carry me off at such a contrary time).
Page 348: "bread" changed to "beard" (contrasting with his jet-black hair and beard).
Page 372: "stands's" changed to "stands" (There she stands the lost daughter and heiress of Lord De Courcy!)
Page 372: "by" added for sentence continuity (He went over and took his place by Erminie.)
Page 381: "how" changed to "now" (you can afford to wait a few moments longer now.)
Page 382: "to" added for sentence continuity (with a sort of still, deep joy not to be expressed in words.)
Page 384: "parent" changed to "parents" (the long-divided parents and child were reunited at last).
Page 387: "Ermine" changed to "Erminie" ("Now, Pet, why? You can come if you like," said Erminie.)
Page 388: "Ermine" changed to "Erminie" (As for Erminie, she wept audibly as the carriage rolled away).