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The blood of the vampire

Chapter 22: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
By Florence Marryat
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A Gothic melodrama that follows an enigmatic young woman whose presence becomes linked to a series of mysterious ailments and social crises. The narrative interweaves domestic episodes, sensational set-pieces, and accounts of medical and scientific scrutiny as observers and acquaintances attempt to explain her condition as supernatural, hereditary, or pathological. Themes of heredity, female agency, social ostracism, and the tensions between superstition and emerging scientific thought drive the plot, which moves toward a tragic resolution while blending romance, moral questioning, and gothic atmosphere.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:

frontmatter: moved one page (beginning of publisher’s list of Latest Volumes) to the end and joined with the rest of the list for continuity

page 10: ‘dared not say Bo!’ changed to ‘dared not say Boo!’

page 53: ‘and generally kow-tooing’ changed to ‘and generally kow-towing’

page 80: joined paragraphs of the same person speaking removing closing quotation mark at ‘The governess was so angry’

page 124: ‘carrying a flimsey wrap’ changed to ‘carrying a flimsy wrap’

page 202: ‘return with him to Hoosur’ changed to ‘return with him to Hosur’

page 227: ‘who care more’ changed to ‘who cares more’

page 285: ‘CHAPTER XVI’ changed to ‘CHAPTER XVII’

page 285: ‘it it had not been for that’ changed to ‘if it had not been for that’

page 317: ‘she returned to the Palazzo’ changed to ‘she returned to the palazzo’ for uniformity

along with a few silent corrections to punctuation. Except for the above, original spelling has been retained.