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Transcriber Notes:
Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_.
Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS.
Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe".
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents
of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is. Possible
misspellings in dialogues are not corrected if there is a chance that
the misspellings were deliberate.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not
corrected unless otherwise noted.
On page 22, "aquiring" was replaced with "acquiring".
On page 23, "induge" was replaced with "indulge".
On page 72, "recived" was replaced with "received".
On page 84, "decribed" was replaced with "described".
On page 99, "Dona" was replaced with "Doña".
On page 106, "countrary" was replaced with "contrary".
On page 121, "Nunez" was replaced with "Nuñez".
On page 127, "outbrust" was replaced with "outburst".
On page 129, "volputuous" was replaced with "voluptuous".
On page 130, "Gesticulatng" was replaced with "Gesticulating".
On page 169, "Vila morta" was replaced with "Vilamorta".
On page 181, "aproaching" was replaced with "approaching".
On page 187, "tolerate him" was replaced with "to tolerate him".
On page 193, "expreses" was replaced with "expresses".
On page 200, an extra single quotation mark was deleted.
On page 238, "consiousness" was replaced with "consciousness".
On page 240, "thought ful" was replaced with "thoughtful".
On page 277, "passsages" was replaced with "passages".