[Page 263]: Standardised hyphenation: Was ’pic-nic’ (Not on Wednesday, for there’s a confounded picnic afoot for that day.)
[Page 263]: Standardised hyphenation: Was ’pic-nics’ (I wish the man who invented picnics had been endowed with immortal life on earth and made to go to every blessed one)
[Page 269]: Standardised hyphenation: Was ’pre-occupied’ (They were fine young fellows, and very pleasant, too, but Mell continued so preoccupied in the vain racking of her brain)
[Page 270]: Was ’omniverous’ (It was altogether as much as she could do to keep from sobbing aloud in the faces of all these omnivorous, happy people.)
[Page 273]: Was ’inate’ (to a simple country girl, who, destitute of fortune, had nothing to commend her but innate modesty and God-given beauty.)
[Page 276]: Was ’It’ (“You mean it? It is a solemn promise! One of those promises you always keep!”)
[Page 278]: Was ’repentent’ (I don’t know who feels most idiotic or repentant, the girl who wears ’em or the fellow who won ’em.)
[Page 278]: Was ’juvenality’ (Jerome, as soon as he could again command his voice, “unless it be Miss Josey’s juvenility.”)
[Page 281]: Was ’It’ (“But I don’t wonder you feel a little frightened about it. It is such a wonderful thing for Rube to do: but Rube has two eyes in his head,)
[Page 282]: Was ’How—do’ (“How-do, old fellow?” said Jerome, by way of congratulation.)