The issue of our toils shall see;
And (they forgotten and unknown)
Young children gather as their own
The harvest that the dead had sown.'
THE END
Transcriber's Note
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings. Obvious typographical errors in punctuation (misplaced quotes and the like) have been fixed without note. Other corrections in the text are noted below (corrections inside the brackets).
page 6: typo corrected: I actually wound up by adminstering[administering] some sal-volatile to her.
page 42: added possible dropped word: But she turned and, with quickened breath, looked out of [the] window
page 121: part of text was added from another source because of unclear scan: [and a ]desirable marriage spoilt, all for want of a little common
[sense and ]plain speaking, which one person at least in the
[valley co]uld have supplied them with, had she not been ignored
[and brow ]beaten on all sides. She contained herself, however,
[in his pres]ence, but the vicar suffered proportionately in the
[privacy of ]the connubial chamber. He had never seen his wife
[so exasperat]ed. To think what might have been, what she
[might have ]done for the race, but for the whims of two stuck-[up,
sup]erior, impracticable young persons, that would neither
[ma]nage their own affairs nor allow other people to manage
[th]em for them! The vicar behaved gallantly, kept the secret
page 153: typo corrected: Now, Langham's tone àpropos[à propos] of Grey's politics
page 263: added comma: Mrs. Leyburn and Agnes made their appearance[,] Mrs. Leyburn all in a flutter
page 325: typo corrected: drawing a long breath when she stopped, which seem[seemed] to relax the fibres
page 341: typo corrected: Otherwise everthing[everything] was forgotten.
page 571: typo corrected: But there was something reasuring[reassuring] as well as comic
page 585: typo corrected: Vincent flung the door open with his old lorldly[lordly] air.