Transcribers Notes:

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Mary Brunton
  • Some minor obvious typographical errors have been corrected silently.
  • All inconsistent hyphenation, apostrophes and single quotes have been left as found unless noted.

Corrections made are shown below in square brackets:

  • Pg. 2 "She understood all the arts of courtesey[courtesy]"
  • Pg. 16 "to unit[unite] myself with vice"
  • Pg. 19 "My dear kind feather[father],' she cried,"
  • Pg. 21 "features indeliby[indelibly] engraven on her recollection"
  • Pg. 23 "Soon after she first saw Hargraves[Hargrave]"
  • Pg. 24 "the cause of Laura's depresion[depression]"
  • Pg. 41 "Hargraves[Hargrave] was the only child"
  • Pg. 66 "and she run[ran] on till she was"
  • Pg. 108 "triumphantly, [']for haven't I read it"
  • Pg. 127 "Varius[Various] circumstances, however, had led De Courcy"
  • Pg. 135 "must have a companion to it.[']"
  • Pg. 198 "was leaving the shop, goodnaturedly[good-naturedly] said"
  • Pg. 219 "she should inhabit so lovely, so peaceful [a] scene."
  • Pg. 224 "Hargrave could not possibility[possibly] refuse to fight"
  • Pg. 225 "the close of a sleepness[sleepless] night"
  • Pg. 233 "'That you have no ambition,' replied [Mrs] De Courcy,"
  • Pg. 237 "twenty times before.--[']"Always live with a"
  • Pg. 247 "'I think,' said [Mrs] De Courcy, 'I can observe"
  • Pg. 249 "Then I was gong[going] to have got"
  • Pg. 253 "namely, the liberty to infrine[infringe]"
  • Pg. 264 "Montague [who] looks so provokingly pleased"
  • Pg. 306 "'Do you dare to tell you[replaced with "me"] that you will not go?'"
  • Pg. 313 "Laura's habitual ascendancy was completed[completely] restored"
  • Pg. 343 "instead of cards, prefer[prefers] allowing me to attend her"
  • Pg. 347 "through every tedious hours[hour] in which the absence of visitors"

Multiple versions of words not changed:

  • bridemaid, bride-maid
  • control, controul
  • couldn't, could'nt
  • extasy, ecstasy
  • might'nt, mightn't, might'n't
  • mustn't, must'nt
  • print-seller, printseller
  • recal, recall
  • superstitution, superstition
  • surprise, surprize
  • suspence, suspense
  • tÊte À tÊte, tÊte-À-tÊte
  • tonight, to-night
  • tremor, tremour
  • wasn't, was'nt




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