Transcriber's note: A table of contents has been added. Blank pages have
been deleted. The publisher's inadvertent omissions of important
punctuation have been corrected. Other detected publisher's errors were
corrected as follows:
p. 385: on which they conduc[conduct] their whaling
p. 289: with an ancient piece of tapesty[tapestry]
p. 291: thousand little conveniencies[conveniences]
p. 299: rancorous recollection of the occurence[occurrence],
p. 301: By the brillance[brilliance] of her conversational
p. 304: when folks spok[spoke] of Andrè and his wife
p. 310: revelations of the sybil[sibyl] concerned
p. 334: how can this [be] part of myself?
p. 335: to literary socities[societies]
p. 337: country disstricts[districts]
p. 352: and gay boddice[bodice]
p. 365: The general fully corrobarated[corroborated]
p. 366: and rolling lazily adown[down] the
p. 368: round, and [in] one fearful lesson teach these same whitecoats
p. 368: drive a brave enemy to depair[despair]
p. 370: two unfurnished rooms; the lagest[largest] contained her
p. 374: they anticipate inuendoes[innuendoes], and meet
p. 384: accordingly went, accompaniod[accompanied] by
p. 399: but my husband is harder nor[than] I, and he said
p. 408: why should be[he] put himself