What a happy circle gathered around that bountifully-loaded table on that Christmas day! Fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, friends and lovers! While the host stood with uplifted hands, asking the Lord to bless and draw all hearts together, an "Amen" found its way out of every answering soul; and the feast went on.
Here we leave them, gentle reader,—bid them all good bye, with a wish and a prayer for their future happiness and success.
[FINIS.]
Transcriber's Notes:
2. Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without comment and consisted primarily of placing or removing missing or incorrectly placed single and double quote marks, end periods, etc..
3. Throughout the text words denoting family or other close relations, "Mother," "Father," "Aunt," "Auntie," "Old Auntie," "Brother," "Sister," "Uncle," "Massa," "Missus" and "Crazy Dimis" were inconsistently capitalized when appearing immediately before a proper name, (_i.e._ aunt Nell and Aunt Cheevers, aunt Vina,) or when standing unmodified as a substitute for a person's name, (_i.e._ "Poor Old Auntie came out from the kitchen," or; "Take me home Mother." or; "Yes Massa"), and have been correctly capitalized in this e-text.
4. SPELLING CORRECTIONS:
- p. 20, "cooly" to "coolly" (coolly interrupted the stately lady.)
- p. 33, "Mary" to "Maria" ("... either," answered Maria;)
- p. 39, "ectasy" to "ecstasy" (ecstasy never before experienced)
- p. 63, "bouyant" to "buoyant" (5) (a light buoyant step)
- p. 64, "remarkably" to "remarkable" (many other remarkable things.)
- p. 70, "blosssoms" to "blossoms" (the blossoms had disappeared)
- p. 73, "musnt't" to "mustn't" ( mustn't eat too much)
- p. 88, "bouyant" to "buoyant" (her light, buoyant figure)
- p. 97, "though" to "thought" (as she thought how he would miss her)
- p. 98, "Lillie-Pearl" to "Lily-Pearl" (21) (had given birth to "Lily-Pearl")
- p. 101, "semed" to "seemed" (that Fanny seemed so much)
- p. 103, "wo" to "woe" (3) (cry of woe) and (feeble wail of woe)
- p. 109, "lilly-pads" to "lily-pads" (the broad lily-pads)
- p. 119, "supulcher" to "sepulcher" (2) (your heart's sepulcher)
- p. 122, "pursuasion" to "persuasion" (4) (After much persuasion)
- p. 123, "form" to "from" (break away from the injunction)
- p. 129, "Lilly Bell" to "Lily-Bell" (5) (He loved "Lily-Bell")
- p. 132, "bouyant" to "buoyant" (5) (from her buoyant nature)
- p. 133, "Lilly Bell" to "Lily-Bell" (5) (Lily-Bell! what a suspicion)
- p. 143, "Nebber" to "Neber" (3) (Neber you min')
- p. 149, "darkdess" to "darkness" (fly into the darkness)
- p. 160, "frolicing" to "frolicking" (frolicking like a kitten)
- p. 172, "etherial" to "ethereal" (is truly ethereal)
- p. 173, "cathesdra" to "Cathesdra" (Ah, there is 'Cathesdra'—listen,)
- p. 175, "destestable" to "detestable" (that detestable governess)
- p. 176, "see" to "she" (she could see no way of escape.)
- p. 180, "cantained" to "contained" (cup of others contained.)
- p. 187, "sheek" to "cheek" (that full round cheek,)
- p. 194, "bullustrades" to "balustrades" (1) (heavy post of the balustrades)
- p. 198, "plebian" to "plebeian" (my 'plebeian' curiosity)
- p. 204, "youg" to "young" (The young man looked)
- p. 210, "hypocricy" to "hypocrisy" (Secrecy and hypocrisy)
- p. 220, "percieve" to "perceive" (12) (perceive that her lips)
- p. 226, "upraidings" to "upbraidings" (2) (terrible upbraidings of conscience!)
- p. 255, "nor" to "not" (who could not help smiling)
- p. 281, "cathesdra" to "Cathesdra" (the sweet singer of "Cathesdra.")
- p. 287, "old aunty" to "Old Auntie" (as Old Auntie would say)
- p. 292, "hygeine" to "hygiene" (in your skill of hygiene;)
- p. 297, "proclivites" to "proclivities" (1) (her confederate proclivities)
- p. 297, "perpertrated" to "perpetrated" (1) (perpetrated on you)
- p. 311, "become" to "became" (but it became entangled)
- p. 315, "apall" to "appall" (2) (Does the sight appall thee?)
- p. 323, "unitiated" to "uninitiated" (to the uninitiated?)
- p. 325, "uncontrolable" to "uncontrollable" (uncontrollable agitation)
- p. 332, "proceding" to "proceeding" (15) (before proceeding farter?)
- p. 339, "carrid" to "carried" (you were carried away.)
- p. 339, "inadvertantly" to "inadvertently" (same time inadvertently)
- p. 356, "trepidition" to "trepidation" (2) (with some trepidation)
- p. 371, "greivous" to "grievous" (2) (a grievous wrong)
- p. 372, "enconsed" to "ensconced" (was ensconced amid)
- p. 372, "reponsibilities" to "responsibilities" (with extraordinary responsibilities)
- p. 388, "severly" to "severely" (3) (severely wounded by a sharpshooter)
- p. 389, "he" to "be" (I'll be hanged)
- p. 421, "whith" to "with" (with her white hand)
- p. 422, "oustretched" to "outstretched" (with outstretched arms)
- p. 424, "uncontrolable" to "uncontrollable" (uncontrollable desire)
- p. 428, "batallion" to "battalion" (power of that battalion.)
- p. 447, "removod" to "removed" (all wraps were removed)
- p. 454, "sensative" to "sensitive" (8) (his sensitive nature)
- p. 457, "consideratien" to "consideration" (4) (subject under consideration)
- p. 458, "escutchion" to "escutcheon" (to the St. Clair escutcheon)
5. TYPOGRAPHICAL CORRECTIONS: