FOOTNOTE:
[A] See Jamieson's Popular Ballads, Vol. ii, p. 558.
Transcribers Notes:
- Some minor obvious typographical errors have been corrected silently.
- All inconsistent hyphenation, apostrophes and single quotes have been left as found unless noted.
Corrections made are shown below in square brackets:
- [Pg. 2] "She understood all the arts of courtesey[courtesy]"
- [Pg. 16] "to unit[unite] myself with vice"
- [Pg. 19] "My dear kind feather[father],' she cried,"
- [Pg. 21] "features indeliby[indelibly] engraven on her recollection"
- [Pg. 23] "Soon after she first saw Hargraves[Hargrave]"
- [Pg. 24] "the cause of Laura's depresion[depression]"
- [Pg. 41] "Hargraves[Hargrave] was the only child"
- [Pg. 66] "and she run[ran] on till she was"
- [Pg. 108] "triumphantly, [']for haven't I read it"
- [Pg. 127] "Varius[Various] circumstances, however, had led De Courcy"
- [Pg. 135] "must have a companion to it.[']"
- [Pg. 198] "was leaving the shop, goodnaturedly[good-naturedly] said"
- [Pg. 219] "she should inhabit so lovely, so peaceful [a] scene."
- [Pg. 224] "Hargrave could not possibility[possibly] refuse to fight"
- [Pg. 225] "the close of a sleepness[sleepless] night"
- [Pg. 233] "'That you have no ambition,' replied [Mrs] De Courcy,"
- [Pg. 237] "twenty times before.--[']"Always live with a"
- [Pg. 247] "'I think,' said [Mrs] De Courcy, 'I can observe"
- [Pg. 249] "Then I was gong[going] to have got"
- [Pg. 253] "namely, the liberty to infrine[infringe]"
- [Pg. 264] "Montague [who] looks so provokingly pleased"
- [Pg. 306] "'Do you dare to tell you[replaced with "me">[ that you will not go?'"
- [Pg. 313] "Laura's habitual ascendancy was completed[completely] restored"
- [Pg. 343] "instead of cards, prefer[prefers] allowing me to attend her"
- [Pg. 347] "through every tedious hours[hour] in which the absence of visitors"
Multiple versions of words not changed:
- bridemaid, bride-maid
- control, controul
- couldn't, could'nt
- extasy, ecstasy
- might'nt, mightn't, might'n't
- mustn't, must'nt
- print-seller, printseller
- recal, recall
- superstitution, superstition
- surprise, surprize
- suspence, suspense
- tête à tête, tête-à-tête
- tonight, to-night
- tremor, tremour
- wasn't, was'nt