Transcriber’s Note
This transcription is based on a microcopy made available by University of California, Davis. Because of the quality of the microcopy, the transcription was checked against a copy owned by Fordham University, a digitized version of which is posted by the Internet Archive at:
[ archive.org/details/TroughtonShortSweet]
In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting, punctuation and spelling of the source text. Thus, variant spellings such as “lieve,” “doat,” “one’self,” and “extacies” as well as words and spellings intended for comic effect such as “horrorble” and “tremengeous” have been retained. The following changes were made to the text:
- p. 2: In the costume note, “MRS. SHORT—Ditto” was changed to “Mrs. SHORT—Ditto” for consistency.
- p. 6: Come, we havn’t a minute to spare—Changed “havn’t” to “haven’t” for consistency.
- p. 11: Another (she pours out another—aside)—Added a period after “Another”.
- p. 16: what we make them, at least in marriage, Louisa was not—Changed the comma after “marriage” to a period.
- p. 26: the bouquet of violets to-night. (she stops and looks at—Changed the period after “to-night” to a comma.
- p. 30: that there is anythihg at all like this going on at home—Changed “anythihg” to “anything”.