Transcriber’s Notes

In two quotations from Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, words are missing, rendering the quotations unintelligible. The missing words, in brackets below, were supplied based on the authoritative French edition (Gallimard, Bibliothêque de la Pléiade, 1988, vol. III).

[Page 9]: Je n’avais [jamais] fait de différence entre les ouvriers
[Page 27]: si loin qu’on allât dans [ses] effets d’art raffiné

Other obvious printer errors have been corrected without note.