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Itemized changes from the original text:
• p. 8: Supplied comma in phrase “found in every vocation, even the
humbler ones” as suggested by end-of-line spacing.
• p. 155: Supplied opening single quotation mark before phrase ‘it’s
plain that you have not heard the crow of the Emperor of China’s
chanticleer.’
• p. 223: Supplied closing single quotation mark after phrase ‘to
believe in the possibility of his existence.’
• p. 225: Replaced period with question mark after phrase ‘with the
poor, commonplace plodder Hautboy, an American of forty?’
• p. 238: Supplied comma in phrase ‘Sir, this is the very Paradise of
Bachelors!’ as suggested by end-of-line spacing.
• p. 365: Replaced ‘no-so-common’ with ‘not-so-common’ in phrase ‘thy
not-so-common virtues.’
• p. 375: Replaced question mark with period after phrase ‘That is in
compliment to our revolutionary ally.’