The Hills of Desire

Chapter 12: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

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About This Book

The narrative follows Augusta, a guileless yet emotionally complex young woman in a bustling boarding house, and the circle of lodgers around her, including an aspiring writer and her commanding mother. Everyday incidents—awkward kisses, fractured memories of a picnic, creative frustration, and domestic disputes—unfold in a series of linked episodes that shift between wry dialogue and interior observation. Themes of longing, duty, and the tension between artistic aspiration and practical necessity recur as minor events and personal choices gradually expose loyalties, vulnerabilities, and the small revelations that reshape the characters' lives.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

This book uses dialect. To retain the intended flavor of the book, spelling and punctuation in dialect text have not been altered.

Hyphenation and spelling of non-dialect wording in the text were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; if no predominant preference was found, or if there is only one occurrence of the word, spelling and hyphenation were not changed.

Punctuation has been standardized to modern usage for better readability.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page 229 — typo, "of" repeated - one "of" removed. (a living part of of him,)