Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant
preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of
inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
Redundant chapter titles were removed.
Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_.
Page 177: “by the first involuntary she made on seeing me” was printed
that way.