TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Obvious printer errors have been corrected without comment.

Inconsistencies in the use of hyphens has been addressed where

possible. Otherwise the author's non-use of accents, spelling and

punctuation have been left intact with the following exception:

Page 161: The word "thought" was changed to "though" in the following

phrase: "though it looked as if she was even too shy for that."

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