Transcriber’s Note
This transcription is based on images made available by the New York Public Library and Google:
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These scans are also available through the HathiTrust Digital Library:
hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433074968516
When there was any question about the text related to image quality or the condition of the printed original, other scans of the same edition available through Google Books were checked. These are available at:
books.google.com/books?id=C3sXAAAAYAAJ
The following changes were made to the printed text:
- p. 68: began to be abusive, in the most picturesque language—Added a period to the end of the sentence.
- p. 80: “Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuck-cuck-cuckoo, cuckoo, Cuck. Cuck.—Changed the first “Cuck” after “cuckoo” to “cuck”, and added a closing double quotation mark after the following “Cuck.”
- p. 110: he returned airly that he hadn’t a relative in the world.—Changed “airly” to “airily”.
- p. 189: “‘I don’t care a bit about the ball,” she said. ‘I’m not going.’—Changed the closing double quotation mark after “ball” to a single quotation mark.
- p. 191: “‘We got out of the Park and went along Oxford Street in silence—Deleted the single quotation mark after the double quotation mark.
- p. 259: And Murphy’s oak was hospitably back—Changed “back” to “black” to be consistent with other descriptions of the doors.
- p. 281: “‘Which train did you come back by? I took the 8.05.’”—Deleted the closing double quotation mark at the end of the paragraph.
Except where noted otherwise, inconsistencies of spelling and hyphenation have been preserved.