TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.
In Chapter III, in the paragraph beginning on page [239] that begins with “But Monsieur Bouchard” there appears to be a missing word after the word “vainly.” The transcriber believes that the missing word was “trying,” but research was not able to confirm this. There are no other contemporaneous editions for comparison.