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In general every effort has been made to replicate the original text as faithfully as possible, including some instances of no longer standard spelling and punctuation. In particular there was a tendency for characters to ask semi-rhetorical questions punctuated with a period instead of a question mark; this has not been changed since it may be a stylistic choice, not a printer's error. However, punctuation errors that appear to be of typographical nature have been repaired (for example, many missing opening or closing quotation marks have been added). Hyphenation and accent marks have been standardized.

The following changes were made to repair apparent typographical errors:

p. 20 "gave her a footstool, tellling" tellling changed to telling
p. 25 "she took up a novel whieh" whieh changed to which
p. 50 "to the advancement of christianity." Christianity capitalized
p. 65 "sparkling good humonr" humonr changed to humour
p. 83 "too ununwell to educate" ununwell changed to unwell
p. 88 "forgive, forgive. Pollock" Pollock changed to Pollok
p. 95 "and, laying hear head" hear changed to her
p. 110 "chosing one wet afternoon" chosing changed to choosing
p. 113 "good deal ot tuition" ot changed to of
p. 115 "pleased with the repect" repect changed to respect
p. 120 "have the pain of romoving" romoving changed to removing
p. 144 "to Hargrave, as she lent" lent changed to leant
p. 144 "the hoom, when the door" hoom changed to room
p. 148 "offer more than thirty ponnds" ponnds changed to pounds
p. 157 "resuming the conversar tion" conversar tion changed to conversation
p. 174 " carcely able to speak" ' carcely' changed to 'scarcely'
p. 175 "Mabel lent down and turned" lent changed to leant
p. 233 "the well-known landmarks ef" ef changed to of
p. 235 "It looked so liked home" liked changed to like
p. 245 "much for you comfort" you changed to your
p. 245 "pocket a whig of shaggy hair" whig changed to wig
p. 257 "CHAPTER XIII" XIII changed to XII
p. 257 "Two months had passed since the the" extra 'the' removed
p. 263 "sure, nothimg to regret" nothimg changed to nothing
p. 267 "bnt happy in their restored" bnt changed to but