Part 159

On page 135, the ambiguous punctuation after "Oh, dear, no!" is an exclamation point. See page 160 of the 1869 novel.

On page 146, change buttonholes to button-holes. On page 173 of the 1869 novel, this word was hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. There were seven other occurrences of button-hole or button-holes in the novel. We therefore used the hyphen.

On page 150, "Betty" was replaced with "Bethy". This error was also made in the 1869 novel--see page 177. The character addressed is Beth.

On page 158, a period was added after "still kneeling". See page 187 of the 1869 novel.

On page 160, "hard a lee" is spelled the same way in the 1869 novel (see page 189) and this novel. We left this as is.

On page 166, a comma was added after "Meg" in "Meg obediently following". See page 195 of the 1869 book.

On page 185, "receptable" was replaced with "receptacle". See page 217 of the 1869 novel.

On page 185, transcribe door-way with the hyphen. See page 217 of the 1869 novel. Also, change doorway to door-way a few lines down the same page. See page 218 of the 1869 novel.

On page 189, the comma after "published every day" was replaced with a period. See page 225 of 1869 book.

On page 198, the clause: "Beth, go and ask Mr. Laurence for a couple of bottles of old wine:" was written as it appeared in the 1896 novel. The clause ended in with a semi-colon in the 1869 book (see page 234).

On page 200, change needlework to needle-work. See page 236 of the 1869 novel.

On page 209, "turnovers" was replaced with "turn-overs". See page 246 of the 1869 novel.

On page 214, the single quotation mark before "Head Nurse of Ward" was replaced with a double quotation mark. See page 252 of the 1869 novel.

On page 218, "Year's ago" was replaced with "Years ago". See page 257 of the 1869 novel.

On page 219, "ask him so help" was replaced with "ask him to help". See page 257 of the 1869 novel.

On page 219, add period after "give it to her." See page 258 of the 1869 novel.

On page 230, "two, A.M." is spelled the same way, with the comma, in this book and in the 1869 novel (on page 272). The comma was retained.

On page 244, "postscrips" was replaced with "postscripts". See page 287 of the 1869 novel.

On page 279, place exclamation point after won't in 'No, I won't!' See page 329 in the 1869 novel.

On page 286, "actingly" was replaced with "acting". See page 337 of the 1869 novel.

On page 288, add comma after mankind in the clause "who felt at peace with all mankind even his mischievous pupil." See page 339 of the 1869 novel.

On page 294, transcribe gray-headed with the hyphen. See page 5 of the 1869 novel.

On page 295, add a comma after salary in the phrase "with an honestly-earned salary." See page 7 of the 1869 book.

Checked the clause "But once get used to these slight blemishes" on page 297. The sentence appears the same way on page 10 of the 1869 novel.

Checked the clause "People who hire all these things done for them never know what they lose" on page 298. The sentence has a comma after them, but is otherwise written the same way on page 11 of the 1869 novel.

On page 299, transcribe door-handles with the hyphen. See page 13 of the 1869 novel.

On page 339, "shortcomings" was replaced with "short-comings". See page 62 of the 1869 novel.

On page 345, "furbelows and notions" was written "furbelows and quinny-dingles" in the 1869 novel. See page 59 of the 1869 novel. We made no change, and only point this out because quinny-dingles is such a memorable word that those intimate with the novel may notice the change.