The following changes were made to the original text:
[Prelude]: meadow land standardized to meadow-land (lads had crossed the sunny meadow-land of childhood and stood by the gate)
[Page 7]: Added quotes (“It has been so long since I saw you that you have almost grown out of my knowledge.... You must be fifteen years old.”)
[Page 8]: anyone standardized to any one (supposing you try to forget that any one has ever told you anything about it)
[Page 9]: every thing standardized to everything (We may go even farther and say with Mr. Grant Allen that everything high and ennobling in our nature springs directly from the fact of sex.)
[Page 13]: microscrope changed to microscope (they are not visible except with the aid of a microscope)
[Page 14]: Changed period to comma after to-night (No one ever talked to me as you have to-night, and I am sure it makes me want to be better.)
[Page 20]: Changed single quote to double (that will bring a blush to the cheeks of either, now, or in the years to come.”)
[Page 20]: Changed ending single quote to double (the doctor handed him, and then with another “Good night,” he walked away in the darkness.)
[Page 24]: plesaantness changed to pleasantness (“all her ways are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”)