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A winter in retirement

Chapter 20: Transcriber’s Notes
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Two young sisters are sent to winter with a widowed aunt at a New England seaside home and move from initial disappointment to warm domestic belonging. The text blends vivid coastal description with gentle household scenes, introducing cheerful cousins, a studious brother, and loyal retainers whose stories and company lift spirits. Recurring social evenings, seasonal pastimes, and moral reflection illustrate how simple comforts and familial kindness turn bleak weather into pleasant sociability. Presented as a string of intimate sketches and episodes, the work emphasizes family bonds, resilience, and the quiet rewards of home life rather than a single dramatic plot.

Transcriber’s Notes

  • pg 8 Changed: procurring the contents of his basket
    to: procuring the contents of his basket
  • pg 11 Changed: And the triumphalt Arch
    to: And the triumphal Arch
  • pg 13 Changed: Who can this women be
    to: Who can this woman be
  • pg 20 Changed: these obtinate Christians in view
    to: these obstinate Christians in view
  • pg 21 Changed: and pursuaded her to hear the preaching
    to: and persuaded her to hear the preaching
  • pg 22 Changed: under that, shelter our pulsillanimity
    to: under that, shelter our pusillanimity
  • pg 22 Changed: request of Servius Sulspicus Galba
    to: request of Servius Sulpicius Galba
  • pg 44 Changed: infered that learning was not necessary
    to: inferred that learning was not necessary
  • pg 51 Changed: Rise, dear to memory’e eye
    to: Rise, dear to memory’s eye
  • pg 57 Changed: so reverened and beloved
    to: so revered and beloved
  • pg 59 Changed: trobbing with hope and visions
    to: throbbing with hope and visions
  • pg 61 Changed: silmultaneous burst of triumph around
    to: simultaneous burst of triumph around
  • pg 61 Changed: and the terrible ery of “death”
    to: and the terrible cry of “death”
  • pg 62 Changed: alotted so long a term of life
    to: allotted so long a term of life
  • pg 63 Changed: with speed unparalelled
    to: with speed unparalleled
  • pg 64 Changed: the lofty Appenines still bound
    to: the lofty Apennines still bound
  • pg 73 Changed: He is not destitue of partisans
    to: He is not destitute of partisans
  • pg 75 Changed: rushed upon its point, anad closed
    to: rushed upon its point, and closed
  • pg 75 Changed: in rapid emotion, for the city
    to: in rapid motion, for the city
  • pg 77 Changed: no place for their inuendoes
    to: no place for their innuendos
  • pg 81 Changed: Sagana, the Thessaiian
    to: Sagana, the Thessalian
  • pg 81 Changed: implores a resing place
    to: implores a resting place
  • pg 82 Changed: whose transcendant beauty
    to: whose transcendent beauty
  • pg 94 Changed: took an affecionate interest
    to: took an affectionate interest