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Itemized changes from the original text: • Table of Contents: Supplied missing period after chapter number IV. • p. 10: Changed “Deptfort” to “Deptford” in phrase “embarked at Deptford on a misty morning in October.” • p. 16: Changed exclamation mark after “child” to comma in phrase “his only child, too, for the matter of that.” • p. 16: Supplied missing closing quotation mark after phrase “bring out your desk, and write at once.” • p. 22: Replaced double with single closing quotation mark in phrase “the lawyer’s letter!--‘Francis Tredethlyn, Esq.!’ eh?” • p. 35: Supplied missing closing quotation mark after phrase “I’m every bit as far from Susy now as ever I was out yonder.” • p. 51: Changed “Hilary” to “Hillary” in phrase “Lionel Hillary, Australian merchant, of Moorgate Street.” • p. 69: Supplied missing period after “Mr.” in phrase “She sighed as she admitted to Mr. Tredethlyn that her name was Burfield.” • p. 72: Supplied missing closing quotation mark after phrase “with her relations in the country.” • p. 80: Supplied missing period after “Mrs.” in phrase “He had only been able to read Mrs. Burfield’s story in one fashion.” • p. 111: Omitted repeated word “as” in phrase “appeared to resent any inquiries as to his state.” • p. 169: Changed “gaities” to “gaieties” in phrase “amidst all the gaieties and luxuries and successes of the most wonderful city in the world.” • p. 188: Replaced double with single closing quotation mark after phrase “what have you done with Robert?” • p. 202: Changed “Cliquot” to “Clicquot” in phrase “under the influence of unlimited Moet or Clicquot.” • p. 214: Supplied missing period after phrase “some one proposed an adjournment to an adjacent theatre.” • p. 224: Supplied missing letter “s” in “Turner’s” in phrase “I’ll slip over and get Miss Turner’s direction.” • p. 227: Supplied missing single closing quotation mark after phrase “I don’t think I shall ever bring my mind to go there, or to see them.” • p. 241: Several words at the top of this page were missing from the images used to produce this eBook. The words “said,” “set,” and “heiress” were confirmed from the original 1864-65 serial publication. • p. 246: Changed “Burlegh” to “Burleigh” in phrase “And long he mourned, the Lord of Burleigh.” • p. 250: Changed “looing” to “looking” in phrase “looking sharply at the myosotis in her nephew’s button-hole.” • p. 266: Changed dash to period after phrase “exclaimed Mr. Harcourt, who had said all he wanted to say.” • p. 268: Changed “reurned” to “returned” in phrase “when the water-party returned to the Cedars.” • p. 271: Omitted closing double quotation mark after phrase “willing to lay down his very life for her pleasure.” • p. 280: Added semicolon after phrase “I have been face to face with starvation, Frank, very often within the last two years.” • p. 286: Supplied missing period after “Mr.” in phrase “The quiet rubber at Mr. Lowther’s lodgings generally led to other rubbers elsewhere.” • p. 289: Supplied missing period after phrase “while Francis was shaking hands with some of the men.” • p. 292: Supplied missing letter “n” in “man” in phrase “a big man with a black moustache.”