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[page 6:] typo corrected: I actually wound up by adminstering[administering] some sal-volatile to her.
[page 42:] added possible dropped word: But she turned and, with quickened breath, looked out of [the] window
[page 121:] part of text was added from another source because of unclear scan: [and a ]desirable marriage spoilt, all for want of a little common [sense and ]plain speaking, which one person at least in the [valley co]uld have supplied them with, had she not been ignored [and brow ]beaten on all sides. She contained herself, however, [in his pres]ence, but the vicar suffered proportionately in the [privacy of ]the connubial chamber. He had never seen his wife [so exasperat]ed. To think what might have been, what she [might have ]done for the race, but for the whims of two stuck-[up, sup]erior, impracticable young persons, that would neither [ma]nage their own affairs nor allow other people to manage [th]em for them! The vicar behaved gallantly, kept the secret
[page 153:] typo corrected: Now, Langham's tone àpropos[à propos] of Grey's politics
[page 263:] added comma: Mrs. Leyburn and Agnes made their appearance[,] Mrs. Leyburn all in a flutter
[page 325:] typo corrected: drawing a long breath when she stopped, which seem[seemed] to relax the fibres
[page 341:] typo corrected: Otherwise everthing[everything] was forgotten.
[page 571:] typo corrected: But there was something reasuring[reassuring] as well as comic
[page 585:] typo corrected: Vincent flung the door open with his old lorldly[lordly] air.