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Rupert Godwin

Chapter 96: Transcriber’s Notes
By M. E. Braddon
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About This Book

A family’s placid life is disrupted by financial ruin, a banker's concealed past, and a stolen letter that trigger claims, betrayals, and social dislocation. Younger figures confront love, hidden identities, and painful reckonings as the plot moves through clandestine searches, illness, legal disputes, and perilous journeys. Gradual revelations compel moral choices and expose long-buried connections, while investigative threads and sensational twists draw disparate characters toward consequences that reshape their relationships and restore a new order.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been silently corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed and some silently added when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text and inconsistent or archaic usage have been retained.

  • Contents: ‘Julia’s Protege’ replaced by ‘Julia’s Protégé’.
  • Page 8: ‘the penniless hidalgoes’ replaced by ‘the penniless hidalgos’.
  • Page 61: ‘doated with senile fondness’ replaced by ‘doted with senile fondness’.
  • Page 74: ‘the nose, Anatasia’ replaced by ‘the nose, Anastasia’.
  • Page 94: ‘a doating father’ replaced by ‘a doting father’.
  • Page 110: ‘words in replp’ replaced by ‘words in reply’.
  • Page 141a: ‘horror took possesion’ replaced by ‘horror took possession’.
  • Page 141b: ‘would be necesary’ replaced by ‘would be necessary’.
  • Page 149: ‘in the civiliszd world’ replaced by ‘in the civilized world’.
  • Page 154: ‘for the first sime’ replaced by ‘for the first time’.
  • Page 157: ‘to the effect thal’ replaced by ‘to the effect that’.
  • Page 173: ‘the chief subects’ replaced by ‘the chief subjects’.
  • Page 176: ‘there’s an undergound’ replaced by ‘there’s an underground’.
  • Page 178: ‘For sometime she’ replaced by ‘For some time she’.
  • Page 194: ‘had scrupuously avoided’ replaced by ‘had scrupulously avoided’.
  • Page 203: ‘drawing-room as cooly’ replaced by ‘drawing-room as coolly’.
  • Page 237a: ‘Good-morning, Mr. Grainger’ replaced by ‘Good morning, Mr. Granger’.
  • Page 237b: ‘Stay, Mr. Grainger’ replaced by ‘Stay, Mr. Granger’.
  • Page 242: ‘swingeing canter’ replaced by ‘swinging canter’.
  • Page 244: ‘instrusted his beloved burden’ replaced by ‘intrusted his beloved burden’.
  • Page 266: ‘a practical investigaton’ replaced by ‘a practical investigation’.
  • Page 267: ‘prepared by Dr. Snaffle’ replaced by ‘prepared by Dr. Snaffley’.
  • Page 274: ‘escape faom danger’ replaced by ‘escape from danger’.
  • Page 280: ‘duly set set forth’ replaced by ‘duly set forth’.
  • Page 305: ‘unable to struggel’ replaced by ‘unable to struggle’.
  • Page 311: ‘stare of idiotcy’ replaced by ‘stare of idiocy’.
  • Page 314: ‘reluctantly begun speedly’ replaced by ‘reluctantly begun speedily’.