Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected. Occasional unmatched quotation marks were corrected when there was no ambiguity.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page 142: Spurious closing quotation mark removed after: he wanted to know?
Page 173: Missing opening quotation mark added at start of: "But where's the....
Page 189: Spurious closing quotation mark removed after: What quarrel, ... eh?
Page 333: "with her eyes to follow" was misprinted as "eves".
Page 340: Double-quote mark changed to apostrophe at start of: 'tis passing——
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