Transcriber’s Note: The following typographical errors present in the original edition have been corrected.
In Chapter II, a missing quotation mark was added before “Why, what’s the matter?”
In Chapter III, “never uttered a compaint” was changed to “never uttered a complaint”.
In Chapter V, “Bourney turned this fifth rose” was changed to “Bournef turned this fifth rose”, and “bending over her huband” was changed to “bending over her husband”.
In Chapter VI, “Is Mmme. Essarès ill” was changed to “Is Mme. Essarès ill”.
In Chapter VIII, missing quotation marks were added after “Oh, Patrice! . . . Patrice! . . .” and “Help! . . . Help! . . .”.
In Chapter X, “They do, howover, throw” was changed to “They do, however, throw”, “Siméon keeps his own council” was changed to “Siméon keeps his own counsel”, and a quotation mark was removed after “And who could defend her?”.
In Chapter XIII, a quotation mark was removed after “what could they do to ward it off?”, and “he shook his first at the invisible enemy” was changed to “he shook his fist at the invisible enemy”.
In Chapter XV, a quotation mark was removed before “There was a brief silence”.