Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Some simple typographical errors were silently corrected.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page [52]: “became acquainted” was printed that way.
Page [71]: “brutal insistance” was printed that way.
Page [77]: “I can thrown” was printed that way.
Page [182]: “a sweeping curtesy” was printed that way.
Page [258]: “hairbrained” was printed that way.