William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, New York.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious printing mistakes have been corrected.
Variations in spelling, hyphenation, and accents remain as in the original unless noted below.
- Title page, “PEREZ” changed to “PÉREZ.”
- Page 6, “archepiscopal” changed to “archiepiscopal” (“to a deputy who held the archiepiscopal throne”).
- Page 12, 14, 37, 69, 183, “Maria” changed to “María.”
- Page 22, “Solomó” changed to “Salomó” (“The Marquesa de San Salomó was talking”).
- Page 63, “mement” changed to “moment” (“said Leon after a moment’s hesitation”).
- Page 85, “sicence” changed to “science” (“to help science to the best of our little power”).
- Page 86, “cemetries” changed to “cemeteries” (“the pantheons of our cemeteries”).
- Page 90, “deen” changed to “been” (“it would have been difficult to refuse”).
- Page 148, “wakfulness” changed to “wakefulness” (“kept him from thorough wakefulness”).
- Page 167, “rigimarole” changed to “rigmarole” (“this coarse rigmarole and sham rhetoric”).
- Page 184, “christian” changed to “Christian” (“a deed of Christian charity”).
- Page 211, “utterence” changed to “utterance” (“means of giving them utterance”).
- Page 270, “Leen” changed to “Leon” (“and the finger pointed at Leon”).
- Page 287, “Fucar” changed to “Fúcar” (“Yours as ever, P. Fúcar.”).
The following changes were made:
- Page 34, “eat” changed to “ate” (“her absence the marquesa ate”).
- Page 168, superfluous “a” removed in “nature is like an artificial plant.”
- Page 280, “Leon” changed to “Federico” (“said Don Pedro to Federico”).