[Transcriber's Notes]
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the three volumes of this novel, or to remedy simple typographical errors; otherwise they were not changed.
Dialect and other non-standard spellings have not been changed.
Spaces before the contraction "'ll" (for "will") have been retained. Such spacing was inconsistent in this volume
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines have been retained.
Page [107]: "gauge" was misprinted as "guage".
Page [180]: "so that speaking one of these vessels" was printed that way.
Page [213]: "never was there less bombast" was misprinted as "their"; changed here.