Seemed tidings of pleasure, though mournful to bear;
And I never, till life and its shadows shall end,
Can forget the sweet sound of the bells of Ostend.
For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the ebook. In the story [The Wager of Battle], the Chapter VI heading is missing due to being absent from the original publication. Hyphenation and archaic spellings have been retained. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as noted below.
page 90, leaves are sear, ==> leaves are [sere],
page 93, to make their ==> to make [to] their
page 104, whispered a page ==> whispered [to] a page
page 106, cylinders and guaging ==> cylinders and [gauging]