Underscores have been used to indicate italic fonts. Inconsistent hyphenation has been left as written. Missing end quote marks have been inserted. The word irreconcileable has been left as written: "I need scarcely point out how utterly irreconcileable is the" The word gowden has been left as written: "Braiding her locks of gowden hair" The word fane has been left as written: "exactly resembled the tail of a fish, with a broad fane" The word engulphed has been left as written: "were all suddenly engulphed in the waves on the night of the battle"
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