This transcription is based on a microcopy made available by
University of California, Davis. Because of the quality of the
microcopy, the transcription was checked against a copy owned by
Fordham University, a digitized version of which is posted by the
Internet Archive at:
https://archive.org/details/TroughtonShortSweet
In general, this transcription attempts to retain the formatting,
punctuation and spelling of the source text. Thus, variant spellings
such as "lieve," "doat," "one'self," and "extacies" as well as words
and spellings intended for comic effect such as "horrorble" and
"tremengeous" have been retained. The following changes were made to
the text:
-- p. 2: In the costume note, "MRS. SHORT--Ditto" was changed to "Mrs.
SHORT--Ditto" for consistency.
-- p. 6: Come, we havn't a minute to spare--Changed "havn't" to
"haven't" for consistency.
-- p. 11: Another (_she pours out another--aside_)--Added a period
after "Another".
-- p. 16: what we make them, at least in marriage, Louisa was
not--Changed the comma after "marriage" to a period.
-- p. 26: the bouquet of violets to-night. (_she stops and looks
at_--Changed the period after "to-night" to a comma.
-- p. 30: that there is anythihg at all like this going on at
home--Changed "anythihg" to "anything".