Transcriber Note:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.
On page 6, "unforgetable" was replaced with "unforgettable".
On page 40, a double quotation mark was replaced with a single quotation mark after "Call me thine own!".
On page 96, a period was added after "or with stone".
On page 164, "fusilades" was replaced with "fusillades".
On page 269, "Here she patted" was replaced with "here she patted".
On page 274, a quotation mark was added after allure thee!"
On page 284, "unforgetable" was replaced with "unforgettable".
On page 288, a period was added after "Mrs".
On page 291, "nationalties" was replaced with "nationalities".
On page 301, "Engish" was replaced with "English".
On page 393, a single quotation mark after "homage!" was replaced with a double quotation mark.
On page 407, "Hagane" was replaced with "Haganè".
On page 421, "near by" was replaced with "nearby".