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Before De Courval and his wife returned to France, the Directory had come and gone, the greatest of soldiers had taken on the rule, and the grave Huguenot mother had gone to her grave in Christ Church yard.
Mrs. Swanwick firmly refused to leave her country. “Better, far better,” she said, “Margaret, that thou shouldst be without me. I shall live to see thee again and the children.”
In after years in Penn’s City men read of Napoleon’s soldier, General the Comte de Courval and of the American beauty at the Emperor’s court, while over their Madeira the older men talked of the German gentleman who had been so long among them, and passed so mysteriously out of the knowledge of all.
2. Punctuation corrections:
p. 72, removed leading double quote (In the hall Dr. Chovet....)
p. 121, changed comma to period (of what was to come.)
p. 145, changed period to comma (will laugh, and soon it will be)
p. 345, added closing quote (“...waiting in New York Harbor.”)
p. 375, changed comma to period (I do not need anything.)
p. 394, removed ending double quote (figure and the occasion.)
p. 415, changed period to comma (I want of thee,)
3. Spelling corrections: (number in parentheses) indicate the number of times the word was spelled correctly in the original text.
p. 22, “Mon dieu!” to “Mon Dieu!” (26)
p. 73, “himslf” to “himself” (86) (he could avenge himself)
p. 169, “mon dieu” to “mon Dieu” (26) (translated: my God)
p. 275, “mon dieu!” to “mon Dieu!” (26) (translated: my God!)
p. 320, “Angles” to “Angels” (the Angels find the marge)
4. Word variations used in this text which have been retained:
“Ach” (unitalicized p. 1-95) and “Ach” (always italicized thereafter)
“a-foot” (1) and “afoot” (2)
“appal” (1), “appalled” (4), “appalling” (2)
“bed-room” (1) and “bedroom” (1)
“candle-light” (1) and “candlelight” (2)
“match-making” (1) and “matchmaking” (1)
“practice” (2) and “practise(ed)” (2)
“Shakspere” (1) and “Shakespeare” (2)
“ship-master” (1) and “shipmaster” (1)
“vandoo” (1) and “vendue” (1) (in W.E.D. “auction”)
“vendue-master” (1) and “vendue master” (1)
5. General notes:
Headings in “Books by” this author were printed in Gothic Font in the original text are are shown in bold italics in this text.
Each illustration was followed by a blank page but numbered page in the original text, these are stacked above the next page in this e-text.