Transcriber’s Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are marked like this in the text. The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text. A list of amendments is at the end of the text. The motto for Chapter VI is misquoted from Iliad XXIII 72; it has been left as printed. MELMOTH |