Transcriber Notes:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the same in the List of Illustrations and in the book.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.
On page 9, "Marchiness" was replaced with "Marchioness".
On page 18, "unforgetable" was replaced with "unforgettable".
On page 22, "respendent" was replaced with "resplendent".
On page 26, "idlness" was replaced with "idleness".
On page 47, "sacrified" was replaced with "sacrificed".
On page 53, "spooffing" was replaced with "spoofing".
On page 67, "shan't" was replaced with "sha'n't".
On page 69, "constitutency" was replaced with "constituency".
On page 78, "assed" was replaced with "passed".
On page 80, "acccepting" was replaced with "accepting".
On page 81, "lookingly" was replaced with "looking".
On page 103, "acccused" was replaced with "accused".
On page 107, "afternooon" was replaced with "afternoon".
On page 224, "limmo" was replaced with "limo".
On page 230, "pressent" was replaced with "present".
On page 233, "EOR" was replaced with "FOR".
On page 235, a period was placed after "in the depths".
On page 240, "tobaccco" was replaced with "tobacco".
On page 244, "crochetty" was replaced with "crotchety".
On page 247, "properely" was replaced with "properly".
On page 259, "expained" was replaced with "explained".