Transcriber's notes

New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the

public domain.

Itemized changes from the original text:

Page 41: "lay" is modified in "lie". The past tense is rather

confusing.

Page 67 contains a word, starting with "h" that was illegible in the

scan. The most probable completion is "her".

Page 69: "frowsly" has been changed into "frowsy".

Page 168 contains an interchange of the two Evelina's. Originally the

text said "Adams", but in view of the logic of the story it has to be

"Leonard".

Page 180: an exclamation mark has been added to the text below the

picture, in order to balance this text against the list of

illustrations.

The author is not too consequent in the use of hyphens. Several words

are encountered with and without hyphen. A small overview: Over-seas

/ overseas; goodman / good-man; homespun / home-spun; hearth-stone /

hearthstone.

In the text special characters are used surrounding words or phrases to

indicate formatting. Their meaning is as follows.

_word_ means 'word' is in italic;

+WORD+ means 'WORD' is in small capitals;

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