Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Transcriber removed redundant half-title page.

Page 60: “some one’s else happiness” was printed that way.

Page 78: “an unkind face” was printed that way; may be a typographical error for “fate”.

Page 79: “the possessor a quiet humor” was printed that way, likely omitting an “of”.

Page 87: “Half an hour later he emerged” originally was printed as “merged”.

Page 189: “which had arisen in his mind and would not down.” was printed that way; probably should be “go down.”

Page 200: “she cared about just then” originally was printed as “just them”.

Page 248: “There’s be a whole regiment” was printed that way.

Page 263: “she was purposely avoiding her” was printed that way, but “she” perhaps should be “he”.

Page 310: “leap of the murderer’s horse” originally was printed as “murder’s”.

Page 319: “pulled off the fore shoe” originally was printed as “the off”.