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@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-11">“He stepped across the road to his emporium.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-12">“'Most comfortable shoulder in sunwich,’ she murmured.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-12">“‘Most comfortable shoulder in Sunwich,’ she murmured.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-13">“The most astounding and gratifying instance of the wonders effected by time was that of Miss Nugent.”</a>
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-17">“Undiluted wisdom and advice flowed from his lips.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-18">“'What do you want?’ inquired Miss Kybird.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-18">“‘What do you want?’ inquired Miss Kybird.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-19">“He regarded the wife of his bosom with a calculating glance.”</a>
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-38">“In search of Mr. Smith.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-39">“I 'ave heard of ’em exploding.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-39">“I ’ave heard of ’em exploding.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-40">“He stepped to the side and looked over.”</a>
@@ -292,10 +292,10 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-45">“The carefully groomed and fastidious murchison.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-46">“'Why do you wish to be on friendly terms?’ she asked.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-46">“‘Why do you wish to be on friendly terms?’ she asked.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-47">“He Said that a bit o’ wedding-cake 'ad blowed in his eye.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-47">“He Said that a bit o’ wedding-cake ’ad blowed in his eye.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-48">“Mr. Wilks drank to the health of both of them.”</a>
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-50">“He met these annoyances with a set face.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-51">“'Can’t you let her see that her attentions are undesirable?”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-51">“Can’t you let her see that her attentions are undesirable?”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-52">“He took a glass from the counter and smashed it on the floor.”</a>
@@ -322,13 +322,13 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-55">“Sniffing at their contents.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-56">“'Puppy!’ said the invalid.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-56">“‘Puppy!’ said the invalid.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-57">“Bella, in a state of fearsome glee, came down the garden to tell the captain of his visitor.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-58">“'Get out of my house,’ he roared.</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-58">“‘Get out of my house,’ he roared.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-59">“I Do hope he has not come to take you away from
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-62">“He wondered, gloomily, what she would think when she heard of it.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-63">“'Some people 'ave all the luck,’ he muttered.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-63">“‘Some people ’ave all the luck,’ he muttered.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-64">“If you’ve got anything to say, why don’t you say it like a man?”</a>
@@ -362,13 +362,13 @@
       <a href="#linkimage-68">“He could just make out a dim figure behind the counter.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-69">“'But suppose she asks me to?’ said the delighted Mr. Nugent, with much gravity.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-69">“‘But suppose she asks me to?’ said the delighted Mr. Nugent, with much gravity.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-70">“'You’re a deceiver,’ she gasped.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-70">“‘You’re a deceiver,’ she gasped.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
-      <a href="#linkimage-71">“'It was Teddy done it,’ said Mr. Kybird, humbly.”</a>
+      <a href="#linkimage-71">“‘It was Teddy done it,’ said Mr. Kybird, humbly.”</a>
     </p>
     <p class="toc">
       <a href="#linkimage-72">“Pausing occasionally to answer anxious inquiries.”</a>
@@ -418,8 +418,8 @@
     <p>
       Regardless of the heat, which indeed was mild compared with that which
       raged in his own bosom, Captain Nugent, fresh from the inquiry of the
-      collision of his ship <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i> with the German barque <i>Hans
-      Muller</i>, strode rapidly up the High Street in the direction of home. An
+      collision of his ship <cite>Conqueror</cite> with the German barque <cite>Hans
+      Müller</cite>, strode rapidly up the High Street in the direction of home. An
       honest seafaring smell, compounded of tar, rope, and fish, known to the
       educated of Sunwich as ozone, set his thoughts upon the sea. He longed to
       be aboard ship again, with the Court of Inquiry to form part of his crew.
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “Arsking your pardon, sir,” said the steward, twisting his unusually dry
-      lips into a smile, “but I’ve 'ad no opportunity, sir—I’ve been
+      lips into a smile, “but I’ve ’ad no opportunity, sir—I’ve been
       follerin’ you all day, sir.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -625,12 +625,12 @@
        she remarked; “you’d better fill all the jugs, Ann.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “It was only 'is way o’ speaking,” said Mr. Wilks, hurriedly; “the cap’n
+      “It was only ’is way o’ speaking,” said Mr. Wilks, hurriedly; “the cap’n
       is like that sometimes.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “I knew a man once, Miss,” said Ann, “as used to prefer to 'ave it in a
-      wash-hand basin. Odd, ugly-looking man 'e was; like Mr. Wilks in the face,
+      “I knew a man once, Miss,” said Ann, “as used to prefer to ’ave it in a
+      wash-hand basin. Odd, ugly-looking man ’e was; like Mr. Wilks in the face,
       only better-looking.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -639,13 +639,13 @@
       Miss Nugent had filled his glass again.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “It must ha’ been nice for the captain to 'ave you with ’im to-day,”
+      “It must ha’ been nice for the captain to ’ave you with ’im to-day,”
        remarked Ann, carelessly.
     </p>
     <p>
       “It was,” said Mr. Wilks, pausing with the glass at his lips and eyeing
-      her sternly. “Eighteen years I’ve bin with ’im—ever since 'e 'ad a
-      ship. 'E took a fancy to me the fust time 'e set eyes on me.”
+      her sternly. “Eighteen years I’ve bin with ’im—ever since ’e ’ad a
+      ship. ’E took a fancy to me the fust time ’e set eyes on me.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Were you better-looking then, Sam?” inquired Miss Nugent, shuffling
@@ -662,15 +662,15 @@
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks declined gracefully. “Eighteen years I’ve bin with the cap’n,”
        he remarked, softly; “through calms and storms, fair weather and foul,
-      Samson Wilks 'as been by 'is side, always ready in a quiet and 'umble way
-      to do 'is best for ’im, and now—now that 'e is on his beam-ends and
-      lost 'is ship, Samson Wilks’ll sit down and starve ashore till he gets
+      Samson Wilks ’as been by ’is side, always ready in a quiet and ’umble way
+      to do ’is best for ’im, and now—now that ’e is on his beam-ends and
+      lost ’is ship, Samson Wilks’ll sit down and starve ashore till he gets
       another.”
      </p>
     <p>
       At these touching words Miss Nugent was undisguisedly affected, and wiping
       her bright eyes with her pinafore, gave her small, well-shaped nose a
-      slight touch <i>en passant</i> with the same useful garment, and squeezed
+      slight touch <i lang="fr">en passant</i> with the same useful garment, and squeezed
       his arm affectionately.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@
     <p>
       “Shouldn’t wonder if the fust officer, Mr. Hardy, got it,” replied the
       steward. “He was going dead-slow in the fog afore he sent down to rouse
-      your father, and as soon as your father came on deck 'e went at 'arfspeed.
+      your father, and as soon as your father came on deck ’e went at ’arfspeed.
       Mr. Hardy was commended, and your father’s certifikit was suspended for
       six months.”
      </p>
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       The captain’s cup was filled to the brim by the promotion of his first
-      officer to the command of the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i>. It was by far the largest
+      officer to the command of the <cite>Conqueror</cite>. It was by far the largest
       craft which sailed from the port of Sunwich, and its master held a
       corresponding dignity amongst the captains of lesser vessels. Their
       allegiance was now transferred to Captain Hardy, and the master of a brig
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@
     <p>
       A touching feature in the business, and a source of much gratification to
       Mr. Wilks by the sentimental applause evoked by it, was his renunciation
-      of the post of steward on the ss. <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i>. Sunwich buzzed with
+      of the post of steward on the ss. <cite>Conqueror</cite>. Sunwich buzzed with
       the tidings that after eighteen years’ service with Captain Nugent he
       preferred starvation ashore to serving under another master. Although
       comfortable in pocket and known to be living with his mother, who kept a
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@
     </figure>
     <p>
       Captain Nugent’s face was suffused with wrath at the pleasantry, and he
-      regarded him with a fixed stare. On board the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i> there was a
+      regarded him with a fixed stare. On board the <cite>Conqueror</cite> there was a
       witchery in that glance more potent than the spoken word, but in his own
       parlour the new captain met it calmly.
     </p>
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@
       <figcaption>“Mr. Wilks watched it from the quay.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
-      The <i><cite>Conqueror</cite>,</i> under its new commander, sailed on the day
+      The <cite>Conqueror</cite>, under its new commander, sailed on the day
       following. Mr. Wilks watched it from the quay, and the new steward
       observing him came to the side, and holding aloft an old pantry-cloth
       between his finger and thumb until he had attracted his attention, dropped
@@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@
       “Let him go now, Sam,” she said; “he’s crying.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “I’m not,” yelled Master Hardy, frantically.
+      “I’m <em>not</em>,” yelled Master Hardy, frantically.
     </p>
     <p>
       “I can see the tears,” declared Miss Nugent, bending.
@@ -1556,7 +1556,7 @@
       debt and dismissed him from his thoughts.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Two months after the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i> had sailed again Captain Nugent
+      Two months after the <cite>Conqueror</cite> had sailed again Captain Nugent
       obtained command of a steamer sailing between London and the Chinese
       ports. From the gratified lips of Mr. Wilks, Sunwich heard of this new
       craft, the particular glory of which appeared to be the luxurious
@@ -1606,8 +1606,8 @@
       he would like to go to sea, and upon receiving a decided answer in the
       negative, at once took steps to send him there. In two days he had
       procured him an outfit, and within a week Jack Nugent, greatly to his own
-      surprise, was on the way to Melbourne as apprentice on the barque <i>Silver
-      Stream</i>.
+      surprise, was on the way to Melbourne as apprentice on the barque <cite>Silver
+      Stream</cite>.
     </p>
     <p>
       He liked it even less than the bank. The monotony of the sea was appalling
@@ -1713,7 +1713,7 @@
       the sea, Captain Nugent sat in the special parlour of The Goblets. The old
       inn offers hospitality to all, but one parlour has by ancient tradition
       and the exercise of self-restraint and proper feeling been from time
-      immemorial reserved for the elite of the town.
+      immemorial reserved for the <i lang="fr">élite</i> of the town.
     </p>
     <p>
       The captain, confident in the security of these unwritten regulations,
@@ -1831,7 +1831,7 @@
       “What have you come here for, then?” inquired the captain.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I come 'ere to drink two o’ gin cold,” returned Mr. Kybird, with a
+      “I come ’ere to drink two o’ gin cold,” returned Mr. Kybird, with a
       dignity befitting the occupation.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -1840,7 +1840,7 @@
     <p>
       Mr. Kybird had another supposition to offer. “Suppose I don’t?” he
       remarked. “I’m a respect-able British tradesman, and my money is as good
-      as yours. I’ve as much right to be here as you 'ave. I’ve never done
+      as yours. I’ve as much right to be here as you ’ave. I’ve never done
       anything I’m ashamed of!”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -1891,8 +1891,8 @@
       “I do not,” said Mr. Kybird, with lofty indifference.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I shouldn’t come 'ere again, that’s what I should do,” said Charles,
-      frankly. “Next time he’ll throw you in the fireplace.”
+      “I shouldn’t come ’ere again, that’s what I should do,” said Charles,
+      frankly. “Next time he’ll throw <em>you</em> in the fireplace.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Ho,” said the heated Mr. Kybird. “Ho, will he? I’d like to see ’im. I’ll
@@ -1909,11 +1909,11 @@
     <p>
       “Never you mind,” said Mr. Kybird, who was not in a position to satisfy
       his curiosity—“never you mind. You go and get on with your work,
-      Charles, and p’r’aps by the time your moustache 'as grown big enough to be
-      seen, you’ll 'ear something.”
+      Charles, and p’r’aps by the time your moustache ’as grown big enough to be
+      seen, you’ll ’ear something.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “I 'eard something the other day,” said the bar-man, musingly; “about you
+      “I ’eard something the other day,” said the bar-man, musingly; “about you
       it was, but I wouldn’t believe it.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -2128,7 +2128,7 @@
     </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-12">
       <img src="images/012.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
-      <figcaption>“'Most comfortable shoulder in sunwich,’ she murmured.”</figcaption>
+      <figcaption>“‘Most comfortable shoulder in Sunwich,’ she murmured.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
       The chair came still nearer until at last it touched his, and then Miss
@@ -2419,7 +2419,7 @@
     <p>
       “There’s another,” said the latter, as the door closed. “His complaint is
       Amelia Kybird, and he’s got it badly. She’s big enough to eat him, but I
-      believe that they are engaged. Perseverance has done it in his case. He
+      believe that they are engaged. Perseverance has done it in his case. <em>He</em>
       used to go about like a blighted flower—”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@
       awkward state of affairs.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Any more 'elp I can give you I shall always be pleased to,” he said,
+      “Any more ’elp I can give you I shall always be pleased to,” he said,
       looking at the clock.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -2632,7 +2632,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Yes, miss,” interposed Mr. Wilks, anxious to explain his position. “He
-      called in to see me; quite a surprise to me it was. I 'ardly knowed him.”
+      called in to see me; quite a surprise to me it was. I ’ardly knowed him.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “The last time we three met,” said Hardy, who to his host’s discomfort had
@@ -2678,7 +2678,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “It’s odd,” remarked Mr. Wilks, who had a happy knack at times of saying
-      the wrong thing, “it’s odd you should 'ave 'appened to come just at the
+      the wrong thing, “it’s odd you should ’ave ’appened to come just at the
       same time as Miss Kate did.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -2716,8 +2716,8 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks smiled a satisfied smile. “He came to ask my advice about
-      business,” he said, softly. “He’s 'eard two or three speak o’ me as
-      knowing a thing or two, and being young, and just starting, 'e came to
+      business,” he said, softly. “He’s ’eard two or three speak o’ me as
+      knowing a thing or two, and being young, and just starting, ’e came to
       talk it over with me. I never see a young man so pleased and ready to take
       advice as wot he is.”
      </p>
@@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@
       “He is coming again for more, I suppose?” said Miss Nugent, carelessly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Mr. Wilks acquiesced. “And he asked me to go over to his 'ouse to smoke a
+      Mr. Wilks acquiesced. “And he asked me to go over to his ’ouse to smoke a
       pipe with ’im on Tuesday,” he added, in the casual manner in which men
       allude to their aristocratic connections. “He’s a bit lonely, all by
       himself.”
@@ -2796,7 +2796,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks nodded casually. “Miss Kate came last night,” he said. “Friday
-      is her night, but she came yesterday instead.”
+      <em>is</em> her night, but she came yesterday instead.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Hardy said, “Oh, indeed,” and fell straight-way into a dismal reverie
@@ -2957,8 +2957,8 @@
       “Only a lovers’ quarrel,” replied Jack. “You go away; we don’t want you.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Look 'ere, we don’t want none o’ your nonsense,” said the shopkeeper,
-      sharply; “and, wot’s more, we won’t 'ave it. Who put that rubbish on my
+      “Look ’ere, we don’t want none o’ your nonsense,” said the shopkeeper,
+      sharply; “and, wot’s more, we won’t ’ave it. Who put that rubbish on my
       counter?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -2999,14 +2999,14 @@
       anywhere, Kybird: same old face, same old voice, same old shirt-sleeves.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ere, come now,” objected the shopkeeper, shortening his arm and
+      “’Ere, come now,” objected the shopkeeper, shortening his arm and
       squinting along it.
     </p>
     <p>
       “I should have known you anywhere,” continued the other, mournfully; “and
       here I’ve thrown up a splendid berth and come all the way from Australia
       just for one glimpse of Miss Kybird, and she doesn’t know me. When I die,
-      Kybird, you will find the word 'Calais’ engraven upon my heart.”
+      Kybird, you will find the word ‘Calais’ engraven upon my heart.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Kybird said, “Oh, indeed.” His daughter tossed her head and bade Mr.
@@ -3016,7 +3016,7 @@
       “Last time I see you,” said Mr. Kybird, pursing up his lips and gazing at
       the counter in an effort of memory; “last time I see you was one fifth o’
       November when you an’ another bright young party was going about in two
-      suits o’ oilskins wot I’d been 'unting for 'igh and low all day long.”
+      suits o’ oilskins wot I’d been ’unting for ’igh and low all day long.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Jack Nugent sighed. “They were happy times, Kybird.”
@@ -3034,7 +3034,7 @@
       Mr. Kybird. “I may stay in Sunwich, and I may not—it all depends.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “You’re not going 'ome?” said Mr. Kybird.
+      “You’re not going ’ome?” said Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
       “No.”
@@ -3059,12 +3059,12 @@
       mystery to him.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I’m coming,” he retorted; “I’m just 'aving a word with Mr. Nugent 'ere.”
+      “I’m coming,” he retorted; “I’m just ’aving a word with Mr. Nugent ’ere.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Well, I never did,” said the stout lady, coming farther into the shop and
-      regarding the visitor. “I shouldn’t 'ave knowed ’im. If you’d asked me who
-      'e was I couldn’t ha’ told you—I shouldn’t 'ave knowed ’im from
+      regarding the visitor. “I shouldn’t ’ave knowed ’im. If you’d asked me who
+      ’e was I couldn’t ha’ told you—I shouldn’t ’ave knowed ’im from
       Adam.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -3085,13 +3085,13 @@
       idea the better he liked it.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Well, now you’re 'ere,” he said, with a great assumption of cordiality,
-      “why not come in and 'ave a cup o’ tea?”
+      “Well, now you’re ’ere,” he said, with a great assumption of cordiality,
+      “why not come in and ’ave a cup o’ tea?”
      </p>
     <p>
       The other hesitated a moment and then, with a light laugh, accepted the
       offer. He followed them into the small and untidy back parlour, and being
-      requested by his hostess to squeeze in next to 'Melia at the small round
+      requested by his hostess to squeeze in next to ’Melia at the small round
       table, complied so literally with the order that that young lady
       complained bitterly of his encroachments.
     </p>
@@ -3105,10 +3105,10 @@
       airily.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “There’s a room upstairs as you might 'ave if you liked,” said Mr. Kybird,
+      “There’s a room upstairs as you might ’ave if you liked,” said Mr. Kybird,
       slowly. “It’s been let to a very respectable, clean young man for half a
       crown a week. Really it ought to be three shillings, but if you like to
-      'ave it at the old price, you can.”
+      ’ave it at the old price, you can.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Done with you,” said the other.
@@ -3133,27 +3133,27 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “I shall get it sooner or later,” said Mr. Kybird. “That stuck-up father
-      of 'is 'll be in a fine way at ’im living here. That’s wot I’m thinking
+      of ’is ’ll be in a fine way at ’im living here. That’s wot I’m thinking
       of.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I don’t see why,” said Mrs. Kybird, bridling. “Who’s Captain Nugent, I
-      should like to know? We’re as good as what 'e is, if not better. And as
-      for the gell, if she’d got 'alf Amelia’s looks she’d do.”
+      should like to know? We’re as good as what ’e is, if not better. And as
+      for the gell, if she’d got ’alf Amelia’s looks she’d do.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Melia’s a fine-looking gal,” assented Mr. Kybird. “I wonder——”
+      “’Melia’s a fine-looking gal,” assented Mr. Kybird. “I wonder——”
      </p>
     <p>
       He laid his pipe down on the table and stared at the mantelpiece. “He
-      seems very struck with 'er,” he concluded. “I see that directly.”
+      seems very struck with ’er,” he concluded. “I see that directly.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Not afore I did,” said his wife, sharply.
     </p>
     <p>
       “See it afore you come into the shop,” said Mr. Kybird, triumphantly. “It
-      'ud be a strange thing to marry into that family, Emma.”
+      ’ud be a strange thing to marry into that family, Emma.”
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-19">
       <img src="images/019.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
@@ -3162,16 +3162,16 @@
     <p>
       “She’s keeping company with young Teddy Silk,” his wife reminded him,
       coldly; “and if she wasn’t she could do better than a young man without a
-      penny in 'is pocket. Pride’s a fine thing, Dan’l, but you can’t live on
+      penny in ’is pocket. Pride’s a fine thing, Dan’l, but you can’t live on
       it.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I know what I’m talking about,” said Mr. Kybird, impatiently. “I know
       she’s keeping company with Teddy as well as wot you do. Still, as far as
-      money goes, young Nugent 'll be all right.”
+      money goes, young Nugent ’ll be all right.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ow?” inquired his wife.
+      “’Ow?” inquired his wife.
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Kybird hesitated and took a sip of his gin and water. Then he regarded
@@ -3183,17 +3183,17 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Not often,” corrected Mr. Kybird, “but then I don’t often tell you any.
-      Wot would you say to young Nugent coming into five 'undred pounds 'is
+      Wot would you say to young Nugent coming into five ’undred pounds ’is
       mother left ’im when he’s twenty-five? He don’t know it, but I do.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Five 'undred,” repeated his wife, “sure?”
+      “Five ’undred,” repeated his wife, “sure?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “No,” said the other, “I’m not sure, but I know. I 'ad it from young
-      Roberts when 'e was at Stone and Dartnell’s. Five 'undred pounds! I shall
-      get my money all right some time, and, if 'e wants a little bit to go on
-      with, 'e can have it. He’s honest enough; I can see that by his manner.”
+      “No,” said the other, “I’m not sure, but I know. I ’ad it from young
+      Roberts when ’e was at Stone and Dartnell’s. Five ’undred pounds! I shall
+      get my money all right some time, and, if ’e wants a little bit to go on
+      with, ’e can have it. He’s honest enough; I can see that by his manner.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Upstairs in the tiny room under the tiles Mr. Jack Nugent, in blissful
@@ -3323,7 +3323,7 @@
       grown up rather good-looking, Jem?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “You are observant,” said Mr. Hardy, admiringly.
+      “You <em>are</em> observant,” said Mr. Hardy, admiringly.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Of course, it may be my partiality,” said Mr. Nugent, with judicial
@@ -3356,7 +3356,7 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “So it does mine,” said Mr. Nugent, “but there’s a black currant down
-      there, and I mean to have it. 'Waste not, want not.’”
+      there, and I mean to have it. ‘Waste not, want not.’”
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-21">
       <img src="images/021.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
@@ -3465,7 +3465,7 @@
       “Yes,” said Miss Kybird, yawning.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Mr. Silk gazed at her, open-mouthed. “What, with me 'ere?” he inquired, in
+      Mr. Silk gazed at her, open-mouthed. “What, with me ’ere?” he inquired, in
       trembling tones.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -3580,11 +3580,11 @@
       joke like that; a little innercent joke.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “If it 'ad been a darning-needle now—” began Mrs. Kybird.
+      “If it ’ad been a darning-needle now—” began Mrs. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “All right,” said the desperate Mr. Silk, “'ave it your own way. Let
-      'Melia marry ’im—I don’t care—I give 'er up.”
+      “All right,” said the desperate Mr. Silk, “’ave it your own way. Let
+      ’Melia marry ’im—I don’t care—I give ’er up.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Teddy!” said Mr. Kybird, in a shocked voice. “Teddy!”
@@ -3601,12 +3601,12 @@
     <p>
       “Never mind ’im,” said his wife, who was sitting in the easy chair,
       distributing affectionate smiles between her daughter and the startled Mr.
-      Nugent. “Make 'er happy, Jack, that’s all I arsk. She’s been a good gal,
+      Nugent. “Make ’er happy, Jack, that’s all I arsk. She’s been a good gal,
       and she’ll make a good wife. I’ve seen how it was between you for some
       time.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “So 'ave I,” said Mr. Kybird. He shook hands warmly with Mr. Nugent, and,
+      “So ’ave I,” said Mr. Kybird. He shook hands warmly with Mr. Nugent, and,
       patting that perturbed man on the back, surveyed him with eyes glistening
       with approval.
     </p>
@@ -3643,14 +3643,14 @@
       <figcaption>“I wonder what the governor’ll say.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
-      “'Arry Smith, you mean,” corrected Mr. Kybird.
+      “’Arry Smith, you mean,” corrected Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Tom Fletcher said something, I’m sure,” persisted his wife.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “He did,” said Mr. Kybird, grimly, “and I pretty near broke 'is 'ead for
-      it. 'Arry Smith is the one you’re thinking of.”
+      “He <em>did</em>,” said Mr. Kybird, grimly, “and I pretty near broke ’is ’ead for
+      it. ’Arry Smith is the one you’re thinking of.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mrs. Kybird after a moment’s reflection admitted that he was right, and,
@@ -3763,7 +3763,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Not that,” said Mr. Nugent, whose intellect had suddenly become painfully
-      acute—“not her?”
+      acute—“not <em>her</em>?”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Why not?” inquired the other.
@@ -3774,7 +3774,7 @@
       that,” he said; “he would raise no objection.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Eh?” said Hardy, starting up from his chair.
+      “<em>Eh?</em>” said Hardy, starting up from his chair.
     </p>
     <p>
       “He would welcome it,” said Mr. Nugent, positively. “There is nothing that
@@ -3799,7 +3799,7 @@
       you know she’s been married once?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “<i>What!</i>” shouted the other. “<i>Married?</i>”
+      “<em>What!</em>” shouted the other. “<em>Married?</em>”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Nugent nodded. His face was perfectly grave, but the joke was
@@ -3828,8 +3828,8 @@
       eyes. “Poor little Kate.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      He put his head on the table again. “And mine,” he wailed. “<i>Uncle
-      Jemmy!</i>—will you tip us half-crowns, nunky?”
+      He put his head on the table again. “And mine,” he wailed. “<em>Uncle
+      Jemmy!</em>—will you tip us half-crowns, nunky?”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Hardy’s expression of lofty scorn only served to retard his recovery,
@@ -3884,17 +3884,17 @@
       suffering.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “He wants taking out of 'imself,” said Mr. Wilks, who had stepped across
+      “He wants taking out of ’imself,” said Mr. Wilks, who had stepped across
       the alley to discuss the subject with his neighbour; “cheerful society and
-      'obbies—that’s what 'e wants.”
+      ’obbies—that’s what ’e wants.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “He’s got a faithful 'eart,” sighed Mrs. Silk. “It’s in the family; 'e
-      can’t 'elp it.”
+      “He’s got a faithful ’eart,” sighed Mrs. Silk. “It’s in the family; ’e
+      can’t ’elp it.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “But 'e might be lifted out of it,” urged Mr. Wilks. “I 'ad several
-      disappointments in my young days. One time I 'ad a fresh gal every v’y’ge
+      “But ’e might be lifted out of it,” urged Mr. Wilks. “I ’ad several
+      disappointments in my young days. One time I ’ad a fresh gal every v’y’ge
       a’most.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -3903,7 +3903,7 @@
       inside to continue their vigil from the windows.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Silk courted me for fifteen years before I would say 'yes,’” she said,
+      “Silk courted me for fifteen years before I would say ’yes,’” she said,
       severely.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -3912,7 +3912,7 @@
       engaged in calculations of an abstruse and elusive nature.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I was on’y seven when 'e started,” said Mrs. Silk, sharply.
+      “I was on’y seven when ’e started,” said Mrs. Silk, sharply.
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks brought his eyes to a level again. “Oh, seven,” he remarked.
@@ -3923,7 +3923,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Just so,” said Mr. Wilks. He glanced at the sharp white face and
-      shapeless figure before him. “It’s hard to believe you can 'ave a son
+      shapeless figure before him. “It’s hard to believe you can ’ave a son
       Teddy’s age,” he added, gallantly.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -3943,7 +3943,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “I should like to see ’em close,” said Mrs. Silk.</p>
-    <p>“Come in and 'ave a look
+    <p>“Come in and ’ave a look
       at ’em,” responded her neighbour.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -3964,7 +3964,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Good evenin’, Teddy,” he said, breezily, with a side-glance at his
-      hostess. “What a lovely day we’ve 'ad.”
+      hostess. “What a lovely day we’ve ’ad.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “So bright,” said Mrs. Silk, nodding with spirit.
@@ -3999,8 +3999,8 @@
       poured him out a glass and set it by his elbow.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Here’s your good 'ealth, ma’am,” said Mr. Wilks, raising it. “Here’s
-      yours, Teddy—a long life and a 'appy one.”
+      “Here’s your good ’ealth, ma’am,” said Mr. Wilks, raising it. “Here’s
+      yours, Teddy—a long life and a ’appy one.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Silk turned listlessly. “I don’t want a long life,” he remarked.
@@ -4009,21 +4009,21 @@
       His mother and her visitor exchanged glances.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “That’s 'ow 'e goes on,” remarked the former, in an audible whisper. Mr.
+      “That’s ’ow ’e goes on,” remarked the former, in an audible whisper. Mr.
       Wilks nodded, reassuringly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I 'ad them ideas once,” he said, “but they go off. If you could only live
-      to see Teddy at the age o’ ninety-five, 'e wouldn’t want to go then. 'E’d
-      say it was crool hard, being cut off in the flower of 'is youth.”
+      “I ’ad them ideas once,” he said, “but they go off. If you could only live
+      to see Teddy at the age o’ ninety-five, ’e wouldn’t want to go then. ’E’d
+      say it was crool hard, being cut off in the flower of ’is youth.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mrs. Silk laughed gaily and Mr. Wilks bellowed a gruff accompaniment. Mr.
       Edward Silk eyed them pityingly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “That’s the 'ardship of it,” he said, slowly, as he looked round from his
-      seat by the fireplace; “that’s where the 'ollowness of things comes in.
+      “That’s the ’ardship of it,” he said, slowly, as he looked round from his
+      seat by the fireplace; “that’s where the ’ollowness of things comes in.
       That’s where I envy Mr. Wilks.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4047,15 +4047,15 @@
       “Wot d’ye mean—near the grave?” inquired Mr. Wilks, somewhat shortly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I was referring to your age,” replied the other; “it’s strange to see 'ow
-      the aged 'ang on to life. You can’t 'ave much pleasure at your time o’
+      “I was referring to your age,” replied the other; “it’s strange to see ’ow
+      the aged ’ang on to life. You can’t ’ave much pleasure at your time o’
       life. And you’re all alone; the last withered branch left.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Withered branch!” began Mr. Wilks; “'ere, look 'ere, Teddy——”
+      “<em>Withered branch!</em>” began Mr. Wilks; “’ere, look ’ere, Teddy——”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “All the others 'ave gone,” pursued Mr. Silk, “and they’re beckoning to
+      “All the others ’ave gone,” pursued Mr. Silk, “and they’re beckoning to
       you.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4071,8 +4071,8 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “It’s true, mother,” said the melancholy youth. “Mr. Wilks is old. Why
-      should 'e mind being told of it? If 'e had 'ad the trouble I’ve 'ad 'e’d
-      be glad to go. But he’ll 'ave to go, whether 'e likes it or not. It might
+      should ’e mind being told of it? If ’e had ’ad the trouble I’ve ’ad ’e’d
+      be glad to go. But he’ll ’ave to go, whether ’e likes it or not. It might
       be tonight. Who can tell?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4097,7 +4097,7 @@
     <p>
       “All your troubles’ll be over then,” continued the warning voice, “and in
       a month or two even your name’ll be forgotten. That’s the way of the
-      world. Think 'ow soon the last five years of your life 'ave passed; the
+      world. Think ’ow soon the last five years of your life ’ave passed; the
       next five’ll pass ten times as fast even if you live as long, which ain’t
       likely.”
      </p>
@@ -4363,17 +4363,17 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “No, sir,” said Mr. Wilks, “o’ course not. I was only a sort o’ wondering
-      how he was going to be persuaded to go if 'e ain’t.”
+      how he was going to be persuaded to go if ’e ain’t.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “That’s what I came here about,” said the other. “I want you to go and fix
       it up with Nathan Smith.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Do you want ’im to be <i>crimped,</i> sir?” stammered Mr. Wilks.
+      “Do you want ’im to be <em>crimped</em>, sir?” stammered Mr. Wilks.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I want him shipped aboard the <i><cite>Seabird</cite>,</i>” returned the other, “and
+      “I want him shipped aboard the <cite>Seabird</cite>,” returned the other, “and
       Smith’s the man to do it.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4403,7 +4403,7 @@
       looked his old master in the face.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “It’s a 'ard life afore the mast, sir,” he said, slowly.
+      “It’s a ’ard life afore the mast, sir,” he said, slowly.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Rubbish!” was the reply. “It’ll make a man of him. Besides, what’s it got
@@ -4430,7 +4430,7 @@
       getting him out of such a mess.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      Mr. Wilks’s brow cleared somewhat. “I s’pose Miss Kate 'ud be pleased
+      Mr. Wilks’s brow cleared somewhat. “I s’pose Miss Kate ’ud be pleased
       too,” he remarked, hopefully.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -4684,8 +4684,8 @@
       you?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Startin’ of you in business or somethin’,” said Mrs. Kybird. “But if 'e
-      tries to break it off between you and 'Melia I hope you know what to say.”
+      “Startin’ of you in business or somethin’,” said Mrs. Kybird. “But if ’e
+      tries to break it off between you and ’Melia I hope you know what to say.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “He won’t do that,” said her husband.
@@ -4694,8 +4694,8 @@
       “If he wants to see me,” said Mr. Nugent, “let him come here.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “I wouldn’t 'ave ’im in my house,” retorted Mr. Kybird, quickly. “An
-      Englishman’s 'ouse is his castle, and I won’t 'ave him in mine.”
+      “I wouldn’t ’ave ’im in my house,” retorted Mr. Kybird, quickly. “An
+      Englishman’s ’ouse is his castle, and I won’t ’ave him in mine.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Why not, Dan’l,” asked his wife, “if the two families is to be
@@ -4710,8 +4710,8 @@
       <figcaption>“Mr. Nathan Smith.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
-      “'Ave it your own way,” said Mrs. Kybird, who was always inclined to make
-      concessions in minor matters. “'Ave it your own way, but don’t blame me,
+      “’Ave it your own way,” said Mrs. Kybird, who was always inclined to make
+      concessions in minor matters. “’Ave it your own way, but don’t blame me,
       that’s all I ask.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4738,7 +4738,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Smith obliged. “Nice night outside,” he said, taking a chair; “clear
-      over’ead. Wot a morning it 'ud be for a sail if we was only young enough.
+      over’ead. Wot a morning it ’ud be for a sail if we was only young enough.
       Is that terbacker in that canister there?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4751,7 +4751,7 @@
       years’ cruise. Nothing to do and everything of the best.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ave you made all the arrangements?” inquired Mr. Wilks, in a tone of
+      “’Ave you made all the arrangements?” inquired Mr. Wilks, in a tone of
       cold superiority.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -4765,16 +4765,16 @@
       your larks on me, Nathan Smith, cos I won’t have it.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Lord love your 'art,” said the boarding-master, “I wouldn’t 'urt you. I’m
+      “Lord love your ’art,” said the boarding-master, “I wouldn’t ’urt you. I’m
       on’y acting under your orders now; yours and the captin’s. It ain’t in my
-      reg’lar way o’ business at all, but I’m so good-natured I can’t say 'no.’”
+      reg’lar way o’ business at all, but I’m so good-natured I can’t say ’no.’”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Can’t say 'no’ to five pounds, you mean,” retorted Mr. Wilks, who by no
+      “Can’t say ’no’ to five pounds, you mean,” retorted Mr. Wilks, who by no
       means relished these remarks.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “If I was getting as much out of it as you are I’d be a 'appy man,” sighed
+      “If I was getting as much out of it as you are I’d be a ’appy man,” sighed
       Mr. Smith.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -4790,7 +4790,7 @@
       line; I’d sooner sweep the roads.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ear, 'ear,” exclaimed Mr. Smith, approvingly. “Ah! wot a thing it is to
+      “’Ear, ’ear,” exclaimed Mr. Smith, approvingly. “Ah! wot a thing it is to
       come acrost an honest man. Wot a good thing it is for the eyesight.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4815,14 +4815,14 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Bring me a quart of it,” said the boarding-master, slowly and
-      impressively. “I want it drawed in a china mug, with a nice foaming 'ead
+      impressively. “I want it drawed in a china mug, with a nice foaming ’ead
       on it.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Wot do you want it for?” inquired Mr. Wilks, eyeing him very closely.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Bisness purposes,” said Mr. Smith. “If you’re very good you shall see 'ow
+      “Bisness purposes,” said Mr. Smith. “If you’re very good you shall see ’ow
       I do it.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4839,14 +4839,14 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “And now I want a spoonful o’ sugar, a spoonful o’ salt, and a spoonful o’
-      vinegar,” said Mr. Smith. “Make haste afore the 'ead goes off of it.”
+      vinegar,” said Mr. Smith. “Make haste afore the ’ead goes off of it.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks withdrew grumbling, and came back in a wonderfully short space
       of time considering, with the articles required.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Thankee,” said the other; “you 'ave been quick. I wish I could move as
+      “Thankee,” said the other; “you ’ave been quick. I wish I could move as
       quick as you do. But you can take ’em back now, I find I can do without
       ’em.”
      </p>
@@ -4856,7 +4856,7 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “I altered my mind,” said Mr. Smith, “and not liking waste, and seeing by
-      your manner that you’ve 'ad more than enough already tonight, I drunk it.
+      your manner that you’ve ’ad more than enough already tonight, I drunk it.
       There isn’t another man in Sunwich I could ha’ played that trick on, no,
       nor a boy neither.”
      </p>
@@ -4866,18 +4866,18 @@
       half turned to his visitor.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Bright, cheerful young chap, 'e is,” said Mr. Smith; “you’ve knowed ’im
+      “Bright, cheerful young chap, ’e is,” said Mr. Smith; “you’ve knowed ’im
       ever since he was a baby, haven’t you?”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks made no reply.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “The <cite>Conqueror</cite>'s sailing to-morrow morning, too,” continued his tormentor;
-      “his father’s old ship. 'Ow strange it’ll seem to ’im following it out
+      “The <cite>Conqueror</cite>’s sailing to-morrow morning, too,” continued his tormentor;
+      “his father’s old ship. ’Ow strange it’ll seem to ’im following it out
       aboard a whaler. Life is full o’ surprises, Mr. Wilks, and wot a big
-      surprise it would be to you if you could 'ear wot he says about you when
-      he comes to 'is senses.”
+      surprise it would be to you if you could ’ear wot he says about you when
+      he comes to ’is senses.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I’m obeying orders,” growled the other.
@@ -4888,7 +4888,7 @@
       don’t want any salt and vinegar this time.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      Mr. Wilks turned a deaf ear. “But 'ow are you going to manage so as to
+      Mr. Wilks turned a deaf ear. “But ’ow are you going to manage so as to
       make one silly and not the other?” he inquired.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -4901,7 +4901,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “I s’pose so,” rejoined the other. “Young Nugent trusts you, and, of
-      course, he’ll take anything from your 'ouse. That’s the beauty of 'aving a
+      course, he’ll take anything from your ’ouse. That’s the beauty of ’aving a
       character, Mr. Wilks; a good character and a face like a baby with grey
       whiskers.”
      </p>
@@ -4911,7 +4911,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Like as not, if my part in it gets to be known,” pursued Mr. Smith,
-      mournfully, “I’ll 'ave that gal of Kybird’s scratching my eyes out or
+      mournfully, “I’ll ’ave that gal of Kybird’s scratching my eyes out or
       p’r’aps sticking a hat-pin into me. I had that once; the longest hat-pin
       that ever was made, I should think.”
      </p>
@@ -4976,9 +4976,9 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Certainly not,” said the other. “As a matter o’ fact the cap’n took a
-      little more than I told ’im to take, and I 'ad to help ’im up to your bed.
-      Accidents will 'appen, but he’ll be all right in the morning if nobody
-      goes near ’im. Leave ’im perfectly quiet, and when 'e comes downstairs
+      little more than I told ’im to take, and I ’ad to help ’im up to your bed.
+      Accidents will ’appen, but he’ll be all right in the morning if nobody
+      goes near ’im. Leave ’im perfectly quiet, and when ’e comes downstairs
       give ’im a strong cup o’ tea.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -4987,16 +4987,16 @@
     <p>
       “He’s as right as rain,” said the boarding master. “I brought down a
       pillow and blankets for you and put ’em in the kitchen. And now I’ll take
-      the other two pound ten and be getting off 'ome. It ought to be ten pounds
-      really with the trouble I’ve 'ad.”
+      the other two pound ten and be getting off ’ome. It ought to be ten pounds
+      really with the trouble I’ve ’ad.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks laid the desired amount on the table, and Mr. Nathan Smith
       placing it in his pocket rose to go.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Don’t disturb ’im till he’s 'ad 'is sleep out, mind,” he said, pausing at
-      the door, “else I can’t answer for the consequences. If 'e should get up
+      “Don’t disturb ’im till he’s ’ad ’is sleep out, mind,” he said, pausing at
+      the door, “else I can’t answer for the consequences. If ’e should get up
       in the night and come down raving mad, try and soothe ’im. Good-night and
       pleasant dreams.”
      </p>
@@ -5105,16 +5105,16 @@
       pockets, “perhaps you’ll be good enough to explain what all this means.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “You were 'ere last night,” said Mr. Wilks, “you and the cap’n.”
+      “You were ’ere last night,” said Mr. Wilks, “you and the cap’n.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I know that,” said Nugent. “How is it I didn’t go home? I didn’t
       understand that it was an all-night invitation. Where is my father?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      The steward shook his head helplessly. “He was 'ere when I went out last
+      The steward shook his head helplessly. “He was ’ere when I went out last
       night,” he said, slowly. “When I came back the room was empty and I was
-      told as 'e was upstairs in my bed.”
+      told as ’e was upstairs in my bed.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Told he was in your bed?” repeated the other. “Who told you?”
@@ -5124,10 +5124,10 @@
       <figcaption>“He pushed open the small lattice window and peered out into the alley.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
-      Mr. Wilks caught his breath. “I mean I told myself 'e was in my bed,” he
+      Mr. Wilks caught his breath. “I mean I told myself ’e was in my bed,” he
       stammered, “because when I came in I see these bed-clothes on the floor,
-      an’ I thought as the cap’n 'ad put them there for me and taken my bed
-      'imself.”
+      an’ I thought as the cap’n ’ad put them there for me and taken my bed
+      ’imself.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Nugent regarded the litter of bed-clothes as though hoping that they
@@ -5138,8 +5138,8 @@
       “Why should you think my father wanted your bed?” he inquired.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I don’t know,” was the reply. “I thought p’r’aps 'e’d maybe taken a
-      little more than 'e ought to have taken. But it’s all a myst’ry to me. I’m
+      “I don’t know,” was the reply. “I thought p’r’aps ’e’d maybe taken a
+      little more than ’e ought to have taken. But it’s all a myst’ry to me. I’m
       more astonished than wot you are.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5151,7 +5151,7 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks shook his head again. “I wasn’t here,” he said, plucking up
-      courage. “Why not go an’ see your father? Seems to me 'e is the one that
+      courage. “Why not go an’ see your father? Seems to me ’e is the one that
       would know most about it.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5193,7 +5193,7 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “I know no more than a babe unborn,” declared Mr. Wilks. “The last I see
-      of the cap’n 'e was a-sitting at this table opposite you.”
+      of the cap’n ’e was a-sitting at this table opposite you.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Sam wouldn’t hurt a fly,” said Miss Nugent, with a kind glance at her
@@ -5274,9 +5274,9 @@
     <p>
       “I’m just going to tell you,” said Mr. Smith. “I was out early this
       morning, strolling down by the harbour to get a little appetite for
-      breakfast, when who should I see coming along, looking as though 'e 'ad
+      breakfast, when who should I see coming along, looking as though ’e ’ad
       just come from a funeral, but Cap’n Nugent! I was going to pass ’im, but
-      he stopped me and asked me to take a message from ’im to 'is old and
+      he stopped me and asked me to take a message from ’im to ’is old and
       faithful steward, Mr. Wilks.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5284,9 +5284,9 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “His old and faithful steward,” repeated Mr. Smith, motioning her to
-      silence. “'Tell ’im,’ he says, 'that I am heartily ashamed of myself for
+      silence. “‘Tell ’im,’ he says, ‘that I am heartily ashamed of myself for
       wot took place last night—and him, too. Tell ’im that, after my
-      father’s 'art proved too much for me, I walked the streets all night, and
+      father’s ’art proved too much for me, I walked the streets all night, and
       now I can’t face may injured son and family yet awhile, and I’m off to
       London till it has blown over.’”
      </p>
@@ -5296,11 +5296,11 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “So far as I could make out,” replied Mr. Smith, with the studious care of
-      one who desires to give exact information, “Cap’n Nugent and Mr. Wilks 'ad
+      one who desires to give exact information, “Cap’n Nugent and Mr. Wilks ’ad
       a little plan for giving you a sea blow.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Me?” interrupted the unfortunate steward. “Now, look 'ere, Nathan Smith——”
+      “<em>Me?</em>” interrupted the unfortunate steward. “Now, look ’ere, Nathan Smith——”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Them was the cap’n’s words,” said the boarding-master, giving him a
@@ -5313,18 +5313,18 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “It seems from wot the cap’n told me,” continued Mr. Smith, “that there
-      was some objection to your marrying old—Mr. Kybird’s gal, so 'e and
-      Mr. Wilks, after putting their 'eads together, decided to get you 'ere and
+      was some objection to your marrying old—Mr. Kybird’s gal, so ’e and
+      Mr. Wilks, after putting their ’eads together, decided to get you ’ere and
       after giving you a little whisky that Mr. Wilks knows the trick of—”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Me?” interrupted the unfortunate steward, again.
+      “<em>Me?</em>” interrupted the unfortunate steward, again.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Them was the cap’n’s words,” said Mr. Smith, coldly. “After you’d 'ad it
+      “Them was the cap’n’s words,” said Mr. Smith, coldly. “After you’d ’ad it
       they was going to stow you away in the <cite>Seabird</cite>, which sailed this morning.
-      However, when the cap’n see you overcome, his 'art melted, and instead o’
-      putting you aboard the whaler he took your feet and Mr. Wilks your 'ead,
+      However, when the cap’n see you overcome, his ’art melted, and instead o’
+      putting you aboard the whaler he took your feet and Mr. Wilks your ’ead,
       and after a great deal o’ trouble got you upstairs and put you to bed.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5337,8 +5337,8 @@
       obeying orders. It was the cap’n’s plan, and Mr. Wilks was aboard ship
       with ’im for a very long time. O’ course, he oughtn’t to ha’ done it, but
       the cap’n’s a masterful man, an’ I can quite understand Mr. Wilks givin’
-      way; I dessay I should myself if I’d been in 'is place—he’s all
-      'art, is Mr. Wilks—no 'ead.”
+      way; I dessay I should myself if I’d been in ’is place—he’s all
+      ’art, is Mr. Wilks—no ’ead.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “It’s a good job for you you’re an old man, Sam,” said Mr. Nugent.
@@ -5361,9 +5361,9 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Just wot I thought, miss,” said the complaisant Mr. Smith; “but I s’pose
-      there was nobody else, and he wanted 'is message to go for fear you should
+      there was nobody else, and he wanted ’is message to go for fear you should
       get worrying the police about ’im or something. He wants it kep’ quiet,
-      and 'is last words to me as 'e left me was, 'If this affair gets known I
+      and ’is last words to me as ’e left me was, ‘If this affair gets known I
       shall never come back. Tell ’em to keep it quiet.’”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5383,7 +5383,7 @@
       for? Why didn’t you tell ’em your part in it?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Wouldn’t ha’ done any good,” said Mr. Smith; “wouldn’t ha’ done you any
+      “Wouldn’t ha’ done any good,” said Mr. Smith; “wouldn’t ha’ done <em>you</em> any
       good. Besides, I did just wot the cap’n told me.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5391,7 +5391,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Smith shook his head. “Couldn’t say,” he returned. “He couldn’t say
-      'imself. Between you an’ me, I expect 'e’s gone up to have a reg’lar fair
+      ’imself. Between you an’ me, I expect ’e’s gone up to have a reg’lar fair
       spree.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5526,7 +5526,7 @@
       paper and firewood.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I only 'eard of it half an hour ago,” she said, reproachfully. “I saw the
+      “I only ’eard of it half an hour ago,” she said, reproachfully. “I saw the
       doctor’s boy, and I left my work and came over at once. Why didn’t you let
       me know?”
      </p>
@@ -5560,13 +5560,13 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Good nursing is the principal thing,” said his mother. “I nursed my pore
-      dear 'usband all through his last illness. He couldn’t bear me to be out
+      dear ’usband all through his last illness. He couldn’t bear me to be out
       of the room. I nursed my mother right up to the last, and your pore Aunt
       Jane went off in my arms.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks raised himself on his elbow and his eyes shone feverishly in the
-      lamplight. “I think I’ll get a 'ospital nurse to-morrow,” he said,
+      lamplight. “I think I’ll get a ’ospital nurse to-morrow,” he said,
       decidedly.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -5586,7 +5586,7 @@
       “I don’t believe there’s anything the matter with me now,” he declared.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ow odd—'ow very odd that you should say that!” said Mrs. Silk,
+      “’Ow odd—’ow very odd that you should say that!” said Mrs. Silk,
       clasping her hands.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -5602,16 +5602,16 @@
       and a similar ending.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Teddy asked to be remembered to you as 'e went off this morning,” said
+      “Teddy asked to be remembered to you as ’e went off this morning,” said
       Mrs. Silk, pausing in her labours at the grate.
     </p>
     <p>
       “I’m much obliged,” muttered the invalid.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “He didn’t 'ave time to come in,” pursued the widow. “You can 'ardly
-      believe what a lot 'e thinks of you, Mr. Wilks. The last words he said to
-      me was, 'Let me know at once if there’s any change.’”
+      “He didn’t ’ave time to come in,” pursued the widow. “You can ’ardly
+      believe what a lot ’e thinks of you, Mr. Wilks. The last words he said to
+      me was, ‘Let me know at once if there’s any change.’”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks distinctly felt a cold, clammy sensation down his spine and
@@ -5620,26 +5620,26 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Teddy’s very fond of you,” continued the unconscious woman. “I s’pose
-      it’s not 'aving a father, but he seems to me to think more of you than
+      it’s not ’aving a father, but he seems to me to think more of you than
       anybody else in the wide, wide world. I get quite jealous sometimes. Only
-      the other day I said to ’im, joking like, 'Well, you’d better go and live
+      the other day I said to ’im, joking like, ‘Well, you’d better go and live
       with ’im if you’re so fond of ’im,’ I said.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Ha, ha!” laughed Mr. Wilks, uneasily.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “You’ll never guess what 'e said then,” said Mrs. Silk dropping her
+      “You’ll never guess what ’e said then,” said Mrs. Silk dropping her
       dustpan and brush and gazing at the hearth.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Said 'e couldn’t leave you, I s’pose,” guessed the steward, gruffly.
+      “Said ’e couldn’t leave you, I s’pose,” guessed the steward, gruffly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Well, now,” exclaimed Mrs. Silk, clapping her hands, “if you 'aven’t
-      nearly guessed it. Well, there! I never did! I wouldn’t 'ave told you for
-      anything if you 'adn’t said that. The exact words what 'e did say was,
-      'Not without you, mother.’”
+      “Well, now,” exclaimed Mrs. Silk, clapping her hands, “if you ’aven’t
+      nearly guessed it. Well, there! I never did! I wouldn’t ’ave told you for
+      anything if you ’adn’t said that. The <em>exact words</em> what ’e did say was,
+      ‘Not without you, mother.’”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks closed his eyes with a snap and his heart turned to water. He
@@ -5658,8 +5658,8 @@
       “I don’t see no change in your appearance,” said the comforting youth.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “'E’s much better,” declared his mother. “That’s what comes o’ good
-      nursing; some nurses would 'ave woke ’im up to take food, but I just let
+      “’E’s much better,” declared his mother. “That’s what comes o’ good
+      nursing; some nurses would ’ave woke ’im up to take food, but I just let
       ’im sleep on. People don’t feel hunger while they’re asleep.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5670,7 +5670,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “We shall pull ’im through,” said Mrs. Silk, smiling, as she put down the
-      empty glass. “In a fortnight he’ll be on 'is feet.”
+      empty glass. “In a fortnight he’ll be on ’is feet.”
      </p>
     <p>
       It is a matter of history that Mr. Wilks was on his feet at five o’clock
@@ -5767,8 +5767,8 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Smith shook his head. “You’ll offend the cap’n bitter if you go to the
-      police about ’im, sir,” he declared. “His last words to me was, 'Smith,
-      'ave this kept quiet.’”
+      police about ’im, sir,” he declared. “His last words to me was, ‘Smith,
+      ’ave this kept quiet.’”
      </p>
     <p>
       “It’ll be a little job for the police,” urged the shipbroker. “They don’t
@@ -5786,7 +5786,7 @@
       have all the floors up. Ha, ha, ha!”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Aving floors up don’t seem to me to be so amusing as wot it does to
+      “’Aving floors up don’t seem to me to be so amusing as wot it does to
       you,” remarked Mr. Smith, coldly.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -5796,8 +5796,8 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “You’re a gentleman as is fond of his joke, Mr. Swann,” returned the
-      boarding-master, lugubriously. “I wish I’d got that 'appy way of looking
-      at things you 'ave.”
+      boarding-master, lugubriously. “I wish I’d got that ’appy way of looking
+      at things you ’ave.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I’m not joking, Smith,” said the other, quietly.
@@ -5809,7 +5809,7 @@
     <p>
       “There ain’t nothing much to tell,” he grumbled, “and, mind, the worst
       favour you could do to the cap’n would be to put it about how he was done.
-      He’s gone for a little trip instead of 'is son, that’s all.”
+      He’s gone for a little trip instead of ’is son, that’s all.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Little trip!” repeated the other; “you call a whaling cruise a little
@@ -5817,8 +5817,8 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “No, no, sir,” said Mr. Smith, in a shocked voice, “I ain’t so bad as
-      that; I’ve got some 'art, I hope. He’s just gone for a little trip with
-      'is old pal Hardy on the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i>. Kybird’s idea it was.”
+      that; I’ve got some ’art, I hope. He’s just gone for a little trip with
+      ’is old pal Hardy on the <cite>Conqueror</cite>. Kybird’s idea it was.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Don’t you know it’s punishable?” demanded the shipbroker, recovering.
@@ -5831,13 +5831,13 @@
     </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-39">
       <img src="images/039.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
-    <figcaption>“I 'ave heard of ’em exploding.”</figcaption>
+    <figcaption>“I ’ave heard of ’em exploding.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
-      Mr. Smith shook his head and became serious. “The cap’n fell into 'is own
+      Mr. Smith shook his head and became serious. “The cap’n fell into ’is own
       trap,” he said, slowly. “There’s no lor for ’im! He’d only get laughed at.
       The idea of trying to get me to put little Amelia Kybird’s young man away.
-      Why, I was 'er god-father.”
+      Why, I was ’er god-father.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Swann stared at him, and then with a friendly “good morning” departed.
@@ -5847,7 +5847,7 @@
     <p>
       “I s’pose,” said that gentleman as he watched the other’s retreating
       figure and dubiously smelt the cigar; “I s’pose it’s all right; but he’s a
-      larky sort, and I 'ave heard of ’em exploding. I’ll give it to Kybird, in
+      larky sort, and I ’ave heard of ’em exploding. I’ll give it to Kybird, in
       case.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -5907,7 +5907,7 @@
     <p>
       He stood bewildered, trying to piece together the events of the preceding
       night, and to try and understand by what miracle he was back on board his
-      old ship the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i>. There was no doubt as to her identity. He
+      old ship the <cite>Conqueror</cite>. There was no doubt as to her identity. He
       knew every inch of her, and any further confirmation that might be
       required was fully supplied by the appearance of the long, lean figure of
       Captain Hardy on the bridge.
@@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@
       “How did this man get aboard here? repeated Captain Hardy, ignoring him.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “He must have concealed 'imself somewhere, sir,” said the mate; “this is
+      “He must have concealed ’imself somewhere, sir,” said the mate; “this is
       the first I’ve seen of him.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6114,8 +6114,8 @@
       incensed captain.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Ho!” said the aggrieved Bill. “Ho, indeed! D’ye 'ear that, mates? A man
-      musn’t look at 'is own bunk now.”
+      “Ho!” said the aggrieved Bill. “Ho, indeed! D’ye ’ear that, mates? A man
+      musn’t look at ’is own bunk now.”
      </p>
     <p>
       The captain turned as though he had been stung. “This is my bunk,” he
@@ -6129,13 +6129,13 @@
       “I slept in it last night,” said the captain, conclusively.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I know you did,” said Bill, “but that was all my kind-'artedness.”
+      “I know you did,” said Bill, “but that was all my kind-’artedness.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “And 'arf a quid, Bill,” a voice reminded him.
+      “And ’arf a quid, Bill,” a voice reminded him.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “And 'arf a quid,” assented Bill, graciously, “and I’m very much obliged
+      “And ’arf a quid,” assented Bill, graciously, “and I’m very much obliged
       to you, mate, for the careful and tidy way in which you’ve cleaned up
       arter yourself.”
      </p>
@@ -6150,7 +6150,7 @@
     <p>
       “No, you ain’t, mate,” said Bill, shaking his head, “don’t you believe it.
       You’re nobody down here; not even a ordinary seaman. I’m afraid you’ll
-      'ave to clean a place for yourself on the carpet. There’s a nice corner
+      ’ave to clean a place for yourself on the carpet. There’s a nice corner
       over there.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6288,7 +6288,7 @@
       immediate reward was the utter incredulity of Mr. Hardy, together with
       some pungent criticisms of his veracity. When the young man did realize at
       last that he was speaking the truth he fell to wondering blankly what was
-      happening aboard the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i>.
+      happening aboard the <cite>Conqueror</cite>.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Never mind about that,” said the older man. “For a few weeks you have got
@@ -6354,7 +6354,7 @@
       bold type and carried them fairly well.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “If I 'ad the woman what made this dress 'ere,” gasped Mrs. Kybird, as she
+      “If I ’ad the woman what made this dress ’ere,” gasped Mrs. Kybird, as she
       stopped with her hand on her side, “I’d give her a bit o’ my mind.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6399,7 +6399,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “It’s my breath,” explained Mrs. Kybird, turning to the fuming young man
-      by her side. “I can 'ardly get along for it—I’m much obliged to you,
+      by her side. “I can ’ardly get along for it—I’m much obliged to you,
       I’m sure.”
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-44">
@@ -6433,8 +6433,8 @@
       of Dr. Murchison and Mrs. Kingdom.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “And 'ow are you, Bella?” inquired Mrs. Kybird with kindly condescension.
-      “Is Mrs. Kingdom at 'ome?”
+      “And ’ow are you, Bella?” inquired Mrs. Kybird with kindly condescension.
+      “Is Mrs. Kingdom at ’ome?”
      </p>
     <p>
       She pushed her way past the astonished Bella and, followed by Mr. Hardy,
@@ -6442,14 +6442,14 @@
       receive them.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I ought to 'ave come before,” said Mrs. Kybird, subsiding thankfully into
-      a chair, “but I’m such a bad walker. I 'ope I see you well.”
+      “I ought to ’ave come before,” said Mrs. Kybird, subsiding thankfully into
+      a chair, “but I’m such a bad walker. I ’ope I see you well.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “We are very well, thank you,” said Mrs. Kingdom, stiffly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “That’s right,” said her visitor, cordially; “what a blessing 'ealth is.
+      “That’s right,” said her visitor, cordially; “what a blessing ’ealth is.
       What should we do without it, I wonder?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6472,8 +6472,8 @@
     <p>
       “They’re a long time a-coming,” said Mrs. Kybird, smiling archly; “but
       there, when young people are keeping company they forget everything and
-      everybody. They didn’t trouble about me; if it 'adn’t been for Mr. 'Ardy
-      giving me 'is arm I should never 'ave got here.”
+      everybody. They didn’t trouble about me; if it ’adn’t been for Mr. ’Ardy
+      giving me ’is arm I should never ’ave got here.”
      </p>
     <p>
       There was a prolonged silence. Dr. Murchison gave a whimsical glance at
@@ -6486,7 +6486,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “He’ll turn up by-and-by,” interposed Mrs. Kybird, looking somewhat
-      morosely at the company. “They don’t notice 'ow the time flies, that’s
+      morosely at the company. “They don’t notice ’ow the time flies, that’s
       all.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6495,7 +6495,7 @@
     <p>
       Mrs. Kybird started. “Ah, and we notice it too, ma’am, at our age,” she
       said, sweetly, as she settled herself in her chair and clasped her hands
-      in her lap. “I can’t 'elp looking at you, my dear,” she continued, looking
+      in her lap. “I can’t ’elp looking at you, my dear,” she continued, looking
       over at Miss Nugent. “There’s such a wonderful likeness between Jack and
       you. Don’t you think so, ma’am?”
      </p>
@@ -6504,10 +6504,10 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Of course,” said Mrs. Kybird, glancing at her from the corner of her eye,
-      “Jack has 'ad to rough it, pore feller, and that’s left its mark on ’im.
+      “Jack has ’ad to rough it, pore feller, and that’s left its mark on ’im.
       I’m sure, when we took ’im in, he was quite done up, so to speak. He’d
-      only got what 'e stood up in, and the only pair of socks he’d got to his
-      feet was in such a state of 'oles that they had to be throwed away. I
+      only got what ’e stood up in, and the only pair of socks he’d got to his
+      feet was in such a state of ’oles that they had to be throwed away. I
       throwed ’em away myself.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6515,8 +6515,8 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “He don’t look like the same feller now,” continued the amiable Mrs.
-      Kybird; “good living and good clothes 'ave worked wonders in ’im. I’m sure
-      if he’d been my own son I couldn’t 'ave done more for ’im, and, as for
+      Kybird; “good living and good clothes ’ave worked wonders in ’im. I’m sure
+      if he’d been my own son I couldn’t ’ave done more for ’im, and, as for
       Kybird, he’s like a father to him.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6535,8 +6535,8 @@
       “Very much,” was the reply.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “And I should think 'e misses you,” retorted Mrs. Kybird, unable to
-      restrain herself; “'e must miss your conversation and what I might call
+      “And I should think ’e misses you,” retorted Mrs. Kybird, unable to
+      restrain herself; “’e must miss your conversation and what I might call
       your liveliness.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6565,7 +6565,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Your nephew don’t seem to be in no hurry,” she remarked, at length; “but,
-      there, direckly 'e gets along o’ my daughter 'e forgits everything and
+      there, direckly ’e gets along o’ my daughter ’e forgits everything and
       everybody.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6573,8 +6573,8 @@
       glances of Miss Nugent.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I shall give him a little longer,” said Mrs. Kybird. “I only came 'ere to
-      please ’im, and to get 'ome alone is more than I can do.”
+      “I shall give him a little longer,” said Mrs. Kybird. “I only came ’ere to
+      please ’im, and to get ’ome alone is more than I can do.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Miss Nugent looked at Mr. Hardy, and her eyes were soft and expressive. As
@@ -6588,7 +6588,7 @@
       “Quite the opposite direction,” returned Mr. Hardy, firmly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “How I got 'ere I don’t know,” said Mrs. Kybird, addressing the room in
+      “How I got ’ere I don’t know,” said Mrs. Kybird, addressing the room in
       general; “it’s a wonder to me. Well, once is enough in a lifetime.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -6739,7 +6739,7 @@
     </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-46">
       <img src="images/046.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
-      <figcaption>“'Why do you wish to be on friendly terms?’ she asked.”</figcaption>
+      <figcaption>“‘Why do you wish to be on friendly terms?’ she asked.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
       “I should like to know your father,” returned Hardy, with perfect gravity;
@@ -6827,7 +6827,7 @@
     <p>
       “Very good,” said Hardy. “Armed with your consent I shall leave no stone
       unturned. Nugent was let in for this, and I am going to get him out if I
-      can. All’s fair in love and war. You don’t mind my doing anything shabby?”
+      can. All’s fair in love and war. You don’t mind <em>my</em> doing anything shabby?”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Not in the least,” replied Miss Nugent, promptly.
@@ -6874,7 +6874,7 @@
     <p>
       “Wot’ll be the end of it I don’t know,” said Mr. Wilks, laying a hand,
       which still trembled, on the other’s knee. “It’s got about that she saved
-      my life by 'er careful nussing, and the way she shakes 'er 'ead at me for
+      my life by ’er careful nussing, and the way she shakes ’er ’ead at me for
       risking my valuable life, as she calls it, going up to London, gives me
       the shivers.”
      </p>
@@ -6883,7 +6883,7 @@
       distantly civil to her.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ow can you be distantly civil when she lives just opposite?” inquired
+      “’Ow can you be distantly civil when she lives just opposite?” inquired
       the steward, querulously. “She sent Teddy over at ten o’clock last night
       to rub my chest with a bottle o’ liniment, and it’s no good me saying I’m
       all right when she’s been spending eighteen-pence o’ good money over the
@@ -6896,7 +6896,7 @@
       Mr. Wilks shook his head. “People in the alley are beginning to talk,” he
       said, dolefully. “Just as I came in this afternoon old George Lee screwed
       up one eye at two or three women wot was gossiping near, and when I asked
-      ’im wot 'e’d got to wink about he said that a bit o’ wedding-cake 'ad
+      ’im wot ’e’d got to wink about he said that a bit o’ wedding-cake ’ad
       blowed in his eye as I passed. It sent them silly creeturs into fits
       a’most.”
      </p>
@@ -6913,7 +6913,7 @@
     </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-47">
       <img src="images/047.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
-      <figcaption>“He said that a bit o’ wedding-cake 'ad blowed in his eye.”</figcaption>
+      <figcaption>“He said that a bit o’ wedding-cake ’ad blowed in his eye.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
       “I’ve felt being cut adrift by her more than anything,” he said, brokenly.
@@ -7013,7 +7013,7 @@
       sipped the comforting beverage.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “No, miss,” said the steward, humbly. “I’ve 'ad a lesson. I’ll never try
+      “No, miss,” said the steward, humbly. “I’ve ’ad a lesson. I’ll never try
       and Shanghai anybody else agin as long as I live.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -7138,15 +7138,15 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       He cabled to his father for news of the illustrious stowaway immediately
-      the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i> was notified as having reached Port Elizabeth. The
-      reply—“Left ship”—confirmed his worst fears, but he cheerfully
+      the <cite>Conqueror</cite> was notified as having reached Port Elizabeth. The
+      reply—“<em>Left ship</em>”—confirmed his worst fears, but he cheerfully
       accepted Mrs. Kingdom’s view that the captain, in order to relieve the
       natural anxiety of his family, had secured a passage on the first vessel
       homeward bound.
     </p>
     <p>
       Captain Hardy was the first to reach home. In the early hours of a fine
-      April morning the <i><cite>Conqueror</cite></i> steamed slowly into Sunwich Harbour,
+      April morning the <cite>Conqueror</cite> steamed slowly into Sunwich Harbour,
       and in a very short time the town was revelling in a description of
       Captain Nugent’s first voyage before the mast from lips which were never
       tired of repeating it. Down by the waterside Mr. Nathan Smith found that
@@ -7242,7 +7242,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “I thought there was some other reason for your consideration besides
-      'ordinary decent ideas,’” he said, at last. “When did it come on? How long
+     ‘ordinary decent ideas,’” he said, at last. “When did it come on? How long
       have you had it?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -7298,7 +7298,7 @@
       “He was off the moment we berthed,” said his father, suppressing a smile.
       “I don’t mean that he bolted—he’d got enough starch left in him not
       to do that—but he didn’t trespass on our hospitality a moment longer
-      than was necessary. I heard that he got a passage home on the Columbus. He
+      than was necessary. I heard that he got a passage home on the <cite>Columbus</cite>. He
       knew the master. She sailed some time before us for London. I thought he’d
       have been home by this.”
      </p>
@@ -7502,7 +7502,7 @@
       him.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ave to be, sir,” said Mr. Wilks, darkly; “out early and 'ome late, and
+      “’Ave to be, sir,” said Mr. Wilks, darkly; “out early and ’ome late, and
       more often than not getting my dinner out. That’s my life nowadays.”
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-51">
@@ -7517,8 +7517,8 @@
       “I can’t be rude to a woman,” said the steward, with a melancholy smile;
       “if I could, my life would ha’ been very different. She’s always stepping
       across to ask my advice about Teddy, or something o’ that sort. All last
-      week she kept borrowing my frying-pan, so at last by way of letting 'er
-      see I didn’t like it I went out and bought 'er one for herself. What’s the
+      week she kept borrowing my frying-pan, so at last by way of letting ’er
+      see I didn’t like it I went out and bought ’er one for herself. What’s the
       result? Instead o’ being offended she went out and bought me a couple o’
       neck-ties. When I didn’t wear ’em she pretended it was because I didn’t
       like the colour, and she went and bought two more. I’m wearing one now.”
@@ -7536,7 +7536,7 @@
       “Ah,” said the other.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I knew what it 'ud be with them two on the same ship,” continued Mr.
+      “I knew what it ’ud be with them two on the same ship,” continued Mr.
       Wilks. “I didn’t say nothing when you was talking to Miss Kate, but I knew
       well enough.”
      </p>
@@ -7549,7 +7549,7 @@
     <p>
       “It’s a great pity,” pursued the unconscious Mr. Wilks, “just as
       everything seemed to be going on smoothly; but while there’s life there’s
-      'ope.”
+      ’ope.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “That’s a smart barge over there,” said Hardy, pointing it out.
@@ -7567,7 +7567,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “There’s always Sam Wilks’s cottage,” he said, in a husky whisper; “and if
-      two of 'is friends <i>should</i> 'appen to meet there, who’d be the
+      two of ’is friends <em>should</em> ’appen to meet there, who’d be the
       wiser?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -7619,7 +7619,7 @@
       properties of the ale within.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I 'ope you ain’t lost nobody, Sam?” said a discomfited inquirer at last.
+      “I ’ope you ain’t lost nobody, Sam?” said a discomfited inquirer at last.
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks shook his head.
@@ -7653,7 +7653,7 @@
       turning to the landlord bade him replenish his mug.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “You’ve 'ad enough, Mr. Wilks,” said that gentleman, who had been watching
+      “You’ve ’ad enough, Mr. Wilks,” said that gentleman, who had been watching
       him for some time.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -7715,7 +7715,7 @@
       that he would never get there softened him.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Pull yourself t’gether,” he said, gravely, “Now, 'old on me.”
+      “Pull yourself t’gether,” he said, gravely, “Now, ’old on me.”
      </p>
     <p>
       The road, as they walked, rose up in imitation of the shipping, but Mr.
@@ -7743,22 +7743,22 @@
       Mrs. Silk, who was sitting in her doorway.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I’ve brought ’im 'ome,” he said, steadying himself against the doorpost;
-      “brought ’im 'ome.”
+      “I’ve brought ’im ’ome,” he said, steadying himself against the doorpost;
+      “brought ’im ’ome.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Brought ’im 'ome?” said the bewildered Mrs. Silk.
+      “Brought ’im ’ome?” said the bewildered Mrs. Silk.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Don’ say anything to ’im,” entreated Mr. Wilks, “my sake. Thing might
-      'appen anybody.”
+      ’appen anybody.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “He’s been like that all the way,” said Mr. Silk, regarding the steward
       with much disfavour. “I don’t know why I troubled about him, I’m sure.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Crowd roun’ ’im,” pursued the imaginative Mr. Wilks. “'Old up, Teddy.”
+      “Crowd roun’ ’im,” pursued the imaginative Mr. Wilks. “’Old up, Teddy.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I’m sure it’s very kind of you, Mr. Wilks,” said the widow, as she
@@ -7781,7 +7781,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “I’m sure, if I had known,” said Mrs. Silk, as she piloted him to a seat,
-      “I’d 'ave 'ad something nice. There, now! If I 'aven’t been and forgot the
+      “I’d ’ave ’ad something nice. There, now! If I ’aven’t been and forgot the
       beer.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -7790,25 +7790,25 @@
       filled his glass.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Teddy mustn’t 'ave any,” he said, sharply, as she prepared to fill that
+      “Teddy mustn’t ’ave any,” he said, sharply, as she prepared to fill that
       gentleman’s glass.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Just 'alf a glass,” she said, winsomely.
+      “Just ’alf a glass,” she said, winsomely.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Not a drop,” said Mr. Wilks, firmly.
     </p>
     <p>
       Mrs. Silk hesitated, and screwing up her forehead glanced significantly at
-      her son. “'Ave some by-and-by,” she whispered.
+      her son. “’Ave some by-and-by,” she whispered.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Give me the jug,” said Mr. Silk, indignantly. “What are you listening to
       ’im for? Can’t you see what’s the matter with ’im?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Not to 'ave it,” said Mr. Wilks; “put it 'ere.”
+      “Not to ’ave it,” said Mr. Wilks; “put it ’ere.”
      </p>
     <p>
       He thumped the table emphatically with his hand, and before her indignant
@@ -7820,15 +7820,15 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “He don’t mean nothing,” said Mrs. Silk, turning a rather scared face to
-      the steward. “'E’s a bit jealous of you, I s’pose.”
+      the steward. “’E’s a bit jealous of you, I s’pose.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks shook his head. Truth to tell, he was rather at a loss to know
       exactly what had happened.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “And then there’s 'is love affair,” sighed Mrs. Silk. “He’ll never get
-      over the loss of Amelia Kybird. I always know when 'e 'as seen her, he’s
+      “And then there’s ’is love affair,” sighed Mrs. Silk. “He’ll never get
+      over the loss of Amelia Kybird. I always know when ’e ’as seen her, he’s
       that miserable there’s no getting a word out of ’im.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -7839,13 +7839,13 @@
       which they seldom provoked elsewhere.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I should like t’ sit 'ere all night,” he said, at last.
+      “I should like t’ sit ’ere all night,” he said, at last.
     </p>
     <p>
       “I don’t believe it,” said Mrs. Silk, playfully.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Like t’ sit 'ere all night,” repeated Mr. Wilks, somewhat sternly. “All
+      “Like t’ sit ’ere all night,” repeated Mr. Wilks, somewhat sternly. “All
       nex’ day, all day after, day after that, day——”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -7912,7 +7912,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “She and Teddy don’t speak to each other now,” said Mr. Wilks, gloomily,
-      “and to 'ear people talk you’d think it was my fault.”
+      “and to ’ear people talk you’d think it was my fault.”
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-54">
       <img src="images/054.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
@@ -7924,18 +7924,18 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “She acts like a suffering martyr,” exclaimed Mr. Wilks. “She comes over
-      'ere dropping hints that people are talking about us, and that they ask
-      'er awkward questions. Pretending to misunderstand 'er every time is
+      ’ere dropping hints that people are talking about us, and that they ask
+      ’er awkward questions. Pretending to misunderstand ’er every time is
       enough to send me crazy; and she’s so sudden in what she says there’s no
-      being up to 'er. On’y this morning she asked me if I should be sorry if
+      being up to ’er. On’y this morning she asked me if I should be sorry if
       she died.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “What did you say?” inquired his listener.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I said 'yes,’” admitted Mr. Wilks, reluctantly. “I couldn’t say anything
-      else; but I said that she wasn’t to let my feelings interfere with 'er in
+      “I said ‘yes,’” admitted Mr. Wilks, reluctantly. “I couldn’t say anything
+      else; but I said that she wasn’t to let my feelings interfere with ’er in
       any way.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -8054,7 +8054,7 @@
       forgive yourself—I’m serious.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Well, you must be ill then,” said the younger man, with anxiety.
+      “Well, you <em>must</em> be ill then,” said the younger man, with anxiety.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Twice,” said Mr. Swann, lying on his back and apparently addressing the
@@ -8142,7 +8142,7 @@
       to the bed, leaned over the prostrate man and spoke rapidly into his ear.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “What?” cried the astounded Mr. Swann, suddenly sitting up in his bed.
+      “<em>What?</em>” cried the astounded Mr. Swann, suddenly sitting up in his bed.
       “You—you scoundrel!”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -8245,7 +8245,7 @@
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-56">
       <img src="images/056.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
-      <figcaption>“'Puppy!’ Said the Invalid.”</figcaption>
+      <figcaption>“‘Puppy!’ Said the Invalid.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
       He gazed fixedly at the young man as he departed and then, catching sight
@@ -8413,7 +8413,7 @@
       cheerfully; “to smoke a pipe with you.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Smoke!” stuttered the captain, explosively; “smoke a pipe with <span class="smcap">me</span>>?”
+      “Smoke!” stuttered the captain, explosively; “smoke a pipe with <span class="smcap">me</span>?”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Why not?” said the other. “I am offering you my services, and anything
@@ -8588,7 +8588,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “We’ve all got to go some day,” observed Mr. Kybird, philosophically.
-      “'Ow’s that cough o’ yours getting on, Nat?”
+      “’Ow’s that cough o’ yours getting on, Nat?”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Smith met the pleasantry coldly; the ailment referred to was one of
@@ -8596,17 +8596,17 @@
       balsams and other remedies.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “He’s worried about 'is money,” he said, referring to Mr. Swann.
+      “He’s worried about ’is money,” he said, referring to Mr. Swann.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Ah, we sha’n’t 'ave that worry,” said Mr. Kybird.
+      “Ah, we sha’n’t ’ave that worry,” said Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Nobody to leave it to,” continued Mr. Smith. “Seems a bit 'ard, don’t
+      “Nobody to leave it to,” continued Mr. Smith. “Seems a bit ’ard, don’t
       it?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “P’r’aps if 'e 'ad 'ad somebody to leave it to 'e wouldn’t 'ave 'ad so
+      “P’r’aps if ’e ’ad ’ad somebody to leave it to ’e wouldn’t ’ave ’ad so
       much to leave,” observed Mr. Kybird, sagely; “it’s a rum world.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -8616,15 +8616,15 @@
       suggestions.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I shouldn’t put a ticket marked 'Look at this!’ on that coat,” he said,
+      “I shouldn’t put a ticket marked ‘<em>Look at this!</em>’ on that coat,” he said,
       severely. “It oughtn’t to be looked at.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “It’s the best out o’ three all 'anging together,” said Mr. Kybird,
+      “It’s the best out o’ three all ’anging together,” said Mr. Kybird,
       evenly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “And look 'ere,” said Mr. Smith. “Look what an out-o’-the-way place you’ve
+      “And look ’ere,” said Mr. Smith. “Look what an out-o’-the-way place you’ve
       put this ticket. Why not put it higher up on the coat?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -8645,14 +8645,14 @@
       show; my idea is a few real good old pals and plenty of licker.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “You’ll 'ave to 'ave both,” observed Nathan Smith, whose knowledge of the
+      “You’ll ’ave to ’ave both,” observed Nathan Smith, whose knowledge of the
       sex was pretty accurate.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Mr. Kybird nodded gloomily. “'Melia and Jack don’t seem to 'ave been
-      'itting it off partikler well lately,” he said, slowly. “He’s getting more
-      uppish than wot 'e was when 'e come here first. But I got ’im to promise
-      that he’d settle any money that 'e might ever get left him on 'Melia.”
+      Mr. Kybird nodded gloomily. “’Melia and Jack don’t seem to ’ave been
+      ’itting it off partikler well lately,” he said, slowly. “He’s getting more
+      uppish than wot ’e was when ’e come here first. But I got ’im to promise
+      that he’d settle any money that ’e might ever get left him on ’Melia.”
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-60">
       <img src="images/060.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
@@ -8661,16 +8661,16 @@
     <p>
       Mr. Smith’s inscrutable eyes glistened into something as nearly
       approaching a twinkle as they were capable. “That’ll settle the five
-      'undred,” he said, warmly. “Are you goin’ to send Cap’n Nugent an invite
+      ’undred,” he said, warmly. “Are you goin’ to send Cap’n Nugent an invite
       for the wedding?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “They’ll 'ave to be asked, o’ course,” said Mr. Kybird, with an attempt at
+      “They’ll ’ave to be asked, o’ course,” said Mr. Kybird, with an attempt at
       dignity, rendered necessary by a certain lightness in his friend’s manner.
       “The old woman don’t like the Nugent lot, but she’ll do the proper thing.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “O’ course she will,” said Mr. Smith, soothingly. “Come over and 'ave a
+      “O’ course she will,” said Mr. Smith, soothingly. “Come over and ’ave a
       drink with me, Dan’l, it’s your turn to stand.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -8894,7 +8894,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “We had to drop behind a little,” said Miss Nugent, raising her voice.
-      “Aunt and Dr. Murchison <i>will</i> talk about their complaints to each
+      “Aunt and Dr. Murchison <em>will</em> talk about their complaints to each
       other! They have been exchanging prescriptions.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9000,11 +9000,11 @@
     <p>
       “I’ve been sitting in the dark to make a certain party think I was out,”
        he said, slowly. “She keeps making a excuse about Teddy to come over and
-      see me. Last night 'e talked about making a 'ole in the water to celebrate
-      'Melia Kybird’s wedding, and she came over and sat in that chair and cried
-      as if 'er 'art would break. After she’d gone Teddy comes over, fierce as a
-      eagle, and wants to know wot I’ve been saying to 'is mother to make 'er
-      cry. Between the two of ’em I 'ave a nice life of it.”
+      see me. Last night ’e talked about making a ’ole in the water to celebrate
+      ’Melia Kybird’s wedding, and she came over and sat in that chair and cried
+      as if ’er ’art would break. After she’d gone Teddy comes over, fierce as a
+      eagle, and wants to know wot I’ve been saying to ’is mother to make ’er
+      cry. Between the two of ’em I ’ave a nice life of it.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “He is still faithful to Miss Kybird, then?” said Hardy, with a sudden
@@ -9012,12 +9012,12 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Faithful?” said Mr. Wilks. “Faithful ain’t no word for it. He’s a
-      sticker, that’s wot 'e is, and it’s my misfortune that 'is mother takes
-      after ’im. I 'ave to go out afore breakfast and stay out till late at
+      sticker, that’s wot ’e is, and it’s my misfortune that ’is mother takes
+      after ’im. I ’ave to go out afore breakfast and stay out till late at
       night, and even then like as not she catches me on the doorstep.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Well, perhaps she will make a hole in the water,” suggested Hardy.
+      “Well, perhaps <em>she</em> will make a hole in the water,” suggested Hardy.
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Wilks smiled, but almost instantly became grave again. “She’s not that
@@ -9073,7 +9073,7 @@
       discontent with his lot in life.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Some people 'ave all the luck,” he muttered, and walked slowly down the
+      “Some people ’ave all the luck,” he muttered, and walked slowly down the
       road.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -9086,7 +9086,7 @@
     </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-63">
       <img src="images/063.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
-      <figcaption>“Some people 'ave all the luck,’ he muttered.”</figcaption>
+      <figcaption>“Some people ’ave all the luck,’ he muttered.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
       In his own untidy little den at the back of the house he sat for some time
@@ -9105,8 +9105,8 @@
       He took another draught. “Thirty years is a long time,” he mused.
     </p>
     <p>
-      He finished the glass. “And if 'e don’t give me something out of it I’ll
-      do ’im as much 'arm as I can,” he continued; and, buttoning up his coat,
+      He finished the glass. “And if ’e don’t give me something out of it I’ll
+      do ’im as much ’arm as I can,” he continued; and, buttoning up his coat,
       he rose and set out in the direction of the High Street.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -9127,11 +9127,11 @@
     <p>
       “Big news,” repeated Mr. Smith, sinking thoughtlessly into the broken
       cane-chair and slowly extricating himself. “Something that’ll make your
-      eyes start out of your 'ed.”
+      eyes start out of your ’ed.”
      </p>
     <p>
       The small black eyes in question were turned shrewdly in his direction.
-      “I’ve 'ad news of you afore, Nat,” remarked Mr. Kybird, with simple
+      “I’ve ’ad news of you afore, Nat,” remarked Mr. Kybird, with simple
       severity.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -9152,11 +9152,11 @@
       “Ah!” said his friend, with great emphasis. “Well, well!”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Wot d’ye mean by 'well, well’?” demanded the other, with some heat.
+      “Wot d’ye mean by ‘well, well’?” demanded the other, with some heat.
     </p>
     <p>
       “I was on’y thinking,” replied Mr. Smith, mildly. “P’r’aps it’s all for
-      the best, and I’d better 'old my tongue. True love is better than money.
+      the best, and I’d better ’old my tongue. True love is better than money.
       After all it ain’t my bisness, and I shouldn’t get much out of it.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9172,7 +9172,7 @@
     <p>
       “Everything smells so fresh and sweet,” continued his nature-loving
       friend; “all the little dickey-birds was a-singing as if their little
-      'arts would break as I come along.”
+      ’arts would break as I come along.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I don’t wonder at it,” said the offended Mr. Kybird.
@@ -9182,7 +9182,7 @@
       “Well, well.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ave you got anything to say agin it?” demanded Mr. Kybird.
+      “’Ave you got anything to say agin it?” demanded Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Cert’nly not,” replied the other. “On’y don’t blame me when it’s too
@@ -9221,12 +9221,12 @@
       “I’ve been spending a hour or two at Mr. Swann’s,” said Mr. Smith.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “And 'ow is 'e?” inquired his hostess, with an appearance of amiable
+      “And ’ow is ’e?” inquired his hostess, with an appearance of amiable
       interest.
     </p>
     <p>
-      The boarding-master shook his head. “'E’s slipping 'is cable,” he said,
-      slowly. “'E’s been making 'is will, and I was one o’ the witnesses.”
+      The boarding-master shook his head. “’E’s slipping ’is cable,” he said,
+      slowly. “’E’s been making ’is will, and I was one o’ the witnesses.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Something in Mr. Smith’s manner as he uttered this simple statement made
@@ -9235,19 +9235,19 @@
       regarded him expectantly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “It’s been worrying ’im some time,” pursued Mr. Smith. “'E 'asn’t got
-      nobody belonging to ’im, and for a long time 'e couldn’t think 'ow to
-      leave it. Wot with 'ouse property and other things it’s a matter of over
+      “It’s been worrying ’im some time,” pursued Mr. Smith. “’E ’asn’t got
+      nobody belonging to ’im, and for a long time ’e couldn’t think ’ow to
+      leave it. Wot with ’ouse property and other things it’s a matter of over
       ten thousand pounds.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Good 'eavens!” said Mr. Kybird, who felt that he was expected to say
+      “Good ’eavens!” said Mr. Kybird, who felt that he was expected to say
       something.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Dr. Blaikie was the other witness,” continued Mr. Smith, disregarding the
       interruption; “and Mr. Swann made us both promise to keep it a dead secret
-      till 'e’s gone, but out o’ friendship to you I thought I’d step round and
+      till ’e’s gone, but out o’ friendship to you I thought I’d step round and
       let you know.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9255,26 +9255,26 @@
       and sat staring at him, while her husband wriggled with excitement.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “'E ain’t left it to me, I s’pose?” he said, with a feeble attempt at
+      “’E ain’t left it to me, I s’pose?” he said, with a feeble attempt at
       jocularity.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Not a brass farden,” replied his friend, cheerfully. “Not to none of you.
-      Why should 'e?
+      Why should ’e?
     </p>
     <p>
       “He ain’t left it to Jack, I s’pose?” said Miss Kybird, who had suspended
       her work to listen.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “No, my dear,” replied the boarding-master. “E’s made 'is will all
-      ship-shape and proper, and 'e’s left everything—all that 'ouse
+      “No, my dear,” replied the boarding-master. “E’s made ’is will all
+      ship-shape and proper, and ’e’s left everything—all that ’ouse
       property and other things, amounting to over ten thousand pounds—to
-      a young man becos 'e was jilt—crossed in love a few months ago, and
-      becos 'e’s been a good and faithful servant to ’im for years.”
+      a young man becos ’e was jilt—crossed in love a few months ago, and
+      becos ’e’s been a good and faithful servant to ’im for years.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Don’t tell me,” said Mr. Kybird, desperately; “don’t tell me that 'e’s
+      “Don’t tell me,” said Mr. Kybird, desperately; “don’t tell me that ’e’s
       been and left all that money to young Teddy Silk.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9289,100 +9289,100 @@
       face.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “It’s a pity 'e didn’t leave it to young Nugent,” said that gentleman,
-      noting with much pleasure the effect of his announcement, “but 'e can’t
-      stand ’im: at no price; 'e told me so 'imself. I s’pose young Teddy’ll be
-      quite the gentleman now, and 'e’ll be able to marry who 'e likes.”
+      “It’s a pity ’e didn’t leave it to young Nugent,” said that gentleman,
+      noting with much pleasure the effect of his announcement, “but ’e can’t
+      stand ’im: at no price; ’e told me so ’imself. I s’pose young Teddy’ll be
+      quite the gentleman now, and ’e’ll be able to marry who ’e likes.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Kybird thrust his handkerchief into his tail-pocket, and all the
-      father awoke within him. “Ho, will 'e?” he said, with fierce sarcasm. “Ho,
-      indeed! And wot about my daughter? I 'ave 'eard of such things as breach
-      o’ promise. Before Mr. Teddy gets married 'e’s got to 'ave a few words
+      father awoke within him. “Ho, will ’e?” he said, with fierce sarcasm. “Ho,
+      indeed! And wot about my daughter? I ’ave ’eard of such things as breach
+      o’ promise. Before Mr. Teddy gets married ’e’s got to ’ave a few words
       with me.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'E’s behaved very bad,” said Mrs. Kybird, nodding.
+      “’E’s behaved very bad,” said Mrs. Kybird, nodding.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “'E come 'ere night after night,” said Mr. Kybird, working himself up into
-      a fury; “'e walked out with my gal for months and months, and then 'e
-      takes 'imself off as if we wasn’t good enough for ’im.”
+      “’E come ’ere night after night,” said Mr. Kybird, working himself up into
+      a fury; “’e walked out with my gal for months and months, and then ’e
+      takes ’imself off as if we wasn’t good enough for ’im.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “The suppers 'e’s 'ad 'ere you wouldn’t believe,” said Mrs. Kybird,
+      “The suppers ’e’s ’ad ’ere you wouldn’t believe,” said Mrs. Kybird,
       addressing the visitor.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Takes 'imself off,” repeated her husband; “takes 'imself off as if we was
-      dirt beneath 'is feet, and never been back to give a explanation from that
+      “Takes ’imself off,” repeated her husband; “takes ’imself off as if we was
+      dirt beneath ’is feet, and never been back to give a explanation from that
       day to this.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I’m not easy surprised,” said Mrs. Kybird, “I never was from a gal, but I
-      must say Teddy’s been a surprise to me. If anybody 'ad told me 'e’d ha’
+      must say Teddy’s been a surprise to me. If anybody ’ad told me ’e’d ha’
       behaved like that I wouldn’t ha’ believed it; I couldn’t. I’ve never said
-      much about it, becos my pride wouldn’t let me. We all 'ave our faults, and
+      much about it, becos my pride wouldn’t let me. We all ’ave our faults, and
       mine is pride.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “I shall bring a breach o’ promise action agin ’im for five thousand
-      pounds,” said Mr. Kybird, with decision.
+      “I shall bring a breach o’ promise action agin ’im for <em>five thousand
+      pounds</em>,” said Mr. Kybird, with decision.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Talk sense,” said Nathan Smith, shortly.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Sense!” cried Mr. Kybird. “Is my gal to be played fast and loose with
-      like that? Is my gal to be pitched over when 'e likes? Is my gal—”
+      like that? Is my gal to be pitched over when ’e likes? Is my gal—”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Wot’s the good o’ talking like that to me?” said the indignant Mr. Smith.
-      “The best thing you can do is to get 'er married to Teddy at once, afore
-      'e knows of 'is luck.”
+      “The best thing you can do is to get ’er married to Teddy at once, afore
+      ’e knows of ’is luck.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “And when’ll that be?” inquired his friend, in a calmer voice.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Any time,” said the boarding-master, shrugging his shoulders. “The old
-      gentleman might go out tonight, or again 'e might live on for a week or
-      more. 'E was so weak 'e couldn’t 'ardly sign 'is name.”
+      gentleman might go out tonight, or again ’e might live on for a week or
+      more. ’E was so weak ’e couldn’t ’ardly sign ’is name.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “I 'ope 'e 'as signed it all right,” said Mr. Kybird, starting.
+      “I ’ope ’e <em>’as</em> signed it all right,” said Mr. Kybird, starting.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Safe as 'ouses,” said his friend.
+      “Safe as ’ouses,” said his friend.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Well, why not wait till Teddy 'as got the money?” suggested Mrs. Kybird,
+      “Well, why not wait till Teddy ’as got the money?” suggested Mrs. Kybird,
       with a knowing shake of her head.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Becos,” said Mr. Smith, in a grating voice, “becos for one thing 'e’d be
-      a rich man then and could 'ave 'is pick. Teddy Silk on a pound or
-      thereabouts a week and Teddy Silk with ten thousand pounds 'ud be two
-      different people. Besides that 'e’d think she was marrying ’im for 'is
+      “Becos,” said Mr. Smith, in a grating voice, “becos for one thing ’e’d be
+      a rich man then and could ’ave ’is pick. Teddy Silk on a pound or
+      thereabouts a week and Teddy Silk with ten thousand pounds ’ud be two
+      different people. Besides that ’e’d think she was marrying ’im for ’is
       money.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “If 'e thought that,” said Mrs. Kybird, firmly, “I’d never forgive ’im.”
+      “If ’e thought that,” said Mrs. Kybird, firmly, “I’d never forgive ’im.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “My advice to you,” said Nathan Smith, shaking his forefinger
       impressively, “is to get ’em married on the quiet and as soon as possible.
-      Once they’re tied up Teddy can’t 'elp 'imself.”
+      Once they’re tied up Teddy can’t ’elp ’imself.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Why on the quiet?” demanded Mr. Kybird, sharply.
     </p>
     <p>
       The boarding-master uttered an impatient exclamation. “Becos if Mr. Swann
-      got to 'ear of it he’d guess I’d been blabbing, for one thing,” he said,
-      sharply, “and for another, 'e left it to ’im partly to make up for 'is
-      disappointment—he’d been disappointed 'imself in 'is younger days,
-      so 'e told me. Suppose 'e managed to get enough strength to alter 'is will?”
+      got to ’ear of it he’d guess I’d been blabbing, for one thing,” he said,
+      sharply, “and for another, ’e left it to ’im partly to make up for ’is
+      disappointment—he’d been disappointed ’imself in ’is younger days,
+      so ’e told me. Suppose ’e managed to get enough strength to alter ’is will?”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Kybird shivered. “It takes time to get married, though,” he objected.
@@ -9390,20 +9390,20 @@
     <p>
       “Yes,” said Mr. Smith, ironically, “it does. Get round young Teddy, and
       then put the banns up. Take your time about it, and be sure and let Mr.
-      Swann know. D’ye think 'e wouldn’t understand wot it meant, and spoil it,
+      Swann know. D’ye think ’e wouldn’t understand wot it meant, and spoil it,
       to say nothing of Teddy seeing through it?
     </p>
     <p>
       “Well, wot’s to be done, then?” inquired the staring Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Send ’em up to London and 'ave ’em married by special license,” said Mr.
+      “Send ’em up to London and ’ave ’em married by special license,” said Mr.
       Smith, speaking rapidly—“to-morrow, if possible; if not, the day
       after. Go and pitch a tale to Teddy tonight, and make ’im understand it’s
-      to be done on the strict q.t.”
+      to be done on the strict <i>q.t.</i>”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Special licenses cost money,” said Mr. Kybird. “I 'ave 'eard it’s a
+      “Special licenses cost money,” said Mr. Kybird. “I ’ave ’eard it’s a
       matter o’ thirty pounds or thereabouts.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9412,11 +9412,11 @@
       seized him by the coat and held him.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Don’t be in a 'urry, Nat,” she pleaded. “We ain’t all as clever as you
+      “Don’t be in a ’urry, Nat,” she pleaded. “We ain’t all as clever as you
       are.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Talk about looking a gift-'orse in the mouth—” began the indignant
+      “Talk about looking a gift-’orse in the mouth—” began the indignant
       Mr. Smith.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -9425,7 +9425,7 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       He pushed his partly mollified friend into his chair again, and, taking a
-      seat next him, began to view the affair with enthusiasm. “'Melia shall turn
+      seat next him, began to view the affair with enthusiasm. “’Melia shall turn
       young Nugent off tonight,” he said, firmly.
     </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-65">
@@ -9434,9 +9434,9 @@
     </figure>
     <p>
       “That’s right,” said the other; “go and do a few more silly things like
-      that and we shall be 'appy. If you’d got a 'ead instead of wot you 'ave
+      that and we shall be ’appy. If you’d got a ’ead instead of wot you ’ave
       got, you wouldn’t talk of giving the show away like that. Nobody must know
-      or guess about anything until young Teddy is married to 'Melia and got the
+      or guess about anything until young Teddy is married to ’Melia and got the
       money.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9444,18 +9444,18 @@
       listening to the plans for her future with admirable composure.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “It’s for Teddy’s own sake,” said Nathan Smith. “Everybody knows 'e’s half
+      “It’s for Teddy’s own sake,” said Nathan Smith. “Everybody knows ’e’s half
       crazy after you.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I don’t know that I don’t like ’im best, even without the money,” said
-      Miss Kybird, calmly. “Nobody could 'ave been more attentive than ’im. I
-      believe that 'e’d marry me if 'e 'ad a hundred thousand, but it looks
+      Miss Kybird, calmly. “Nobody could ’ave been more attentive than ’im. I
+      believe that ’e’d marry me if ’e ’ad a hundred thousand, but it looks
       better your way.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Better all round,” said Nathan Smith, with an approving nod. “Now, Dan’l,
-      'op round to Teddy and whistle ’im back, and mind 'e’s to keep it a dead
+      ’op round to Teddy and whistle ’im back, and mind ’e’s to keep it a dead
       secret on account o’ trouble with young Nugent. D’ye twig?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9471,7 +9471,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “I didn’t expect to lose by it,” said the boarding-master, pointedly.
-      “Come over and 'ave a glass at the Chequers, Dan, and then you can go
+      “Come over and ’ave a glass at the Chequers, Dan, and then you can go
       along and see Teddy.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9520,7 +9520,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Good evening, Teddy,” he said, with a genial smile, as he entered slowly
-      and closed the door behind him. “I 'ope I see you well?”
+      and closed the door behind him. “I ’ope I see you well?”
      </p>
     <figure style="width:60%;" id="linkimage-66">
       <img src="images/066.jpg" alt="" style="width: 100%">
@@ -9531,10 +9531,10 @@
       surprise.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I’m glad to 'ear it,” said Mr. Kybird, in a somewhat reproachful voice,
+      “I’m glad to ’ear it,” said Mr. Kybird, in a somewhat reproachful voice,
       “for your sake; for everybody’s sake, though, p’r’aps, I did expect to
-      find you looking a little bit down. Ah! it’s the wimmen that 'ave the
-      'arts after all.”
+      find you looking a little bit down. Ah! it’s the wimmen that ’ave the
+      ’arts after all.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Silk coughed. “What d’ye mean?” he inquired, somewhat puzzled.
@@ -9543,26 +9543,26 @@
       “I came to see you, Teddy, on a very delikit business,” said Mr. Kybird,
       taking a seat and gazing diffidently at his hat as he swung it between his
       hands; “though, as man to man, I’m on’y doing of my dooty. But if you
-      don’t want to 'ear wot I’ve got to say, say so, and Dan’l Kybird’ll darken
+      don’t want to ’ear wot I’ve got to say, say so, and Dan’l Kybird’ll darken
       your door no more.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “How can I know whether I want to 'ear it or not when I don’t know wot it
+      “How can I know whether I want to ’ear it or not when I don’t know wot it
       is?” said Mr. Silk, judiciously.
     </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Kybird sat biting his thumb-nail, then he looked up suddenly.
-      “'Melia,” he said, with an outburst of desperate frankness, “'Melia is
-      crying 'er eyes out.”
+      “’Melia,” he said, with an outburst of desperate frankness, “’Melia is
+      crying ’er eyes out.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Silk, with a smothered exclamation, started up from his chair and
       regarded him eagerly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “If she knew I’d been 'ere,” pursued Mr. Kybird, “she’d—I don’t know wot
-      she wouldn’t do. That’s 'er pride; but I’ve got my pride too; the pride of
-      a father’s 'art.”
+      “If she knew I’d been ’ere,” pursued Mr. Kybird, “she’d—I don’t know wot
+      she wouldn’t do. That’s ’er pride; but I’ve got my pride too; the pride of
+      a father’s ’art.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “What—what’s she crying about?” inquired Mr. Silk, in an unsteady
@@ -9571,10 +9571,10 @@
     <p>
       “She’s been looking poorly for some time,” continued the veracious Mr.
       Kybird, “and crying. When I tell you that part o’ the wedding-dress wot
-      she was making 'ad to be taken away from 'er because o’ the tears she
-      dropped on it, you may 'ave some idea of wot things are like. She’s never
+      she was making ’ad to be taken away from ’er because o’ the tears she
+      dropped on it, you may ’ave some idea of wot things are like. She’s never
       forgot you, Teddy, and it was on’y your quick temper that day that made
-      'er take on with young Nugent. She’s got a temper, too, but she give 'er
+      ’er take on with young Nugent. She’s got a temper, too, but she give ’er
       love once, and, being my daughter, she couldn’t give it agin.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9583,8 +9583,8 @@
       he tried to speak and failed.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “That’s 'ow it is, Teddy,” sighed Mr. Kybird, rising as though to depart.
-      “I’ve done my dooty. It was a 'ard thing to do, but I’ve done it.”
+      “That’s ’ow it is, Teddy,” sighed Mr. Kybird, rising as though to depart.
+      “I’ve done my dooty. It was a ’ard thing to do, but I’ve done it.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Do you mean,” said Mr. Silk, recovering his voice at last, “do you mean
@@ -9603,12 +9603,12 @@
       hand warmly, pushed him back into his seat again.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “There’s 'er pride to consider, Teddy,” said the latter gentleman, with
+      “There’s ’er pride to consider, Teddy,” said the latter gentleman, with
       the whisper of a conspirator.
       “She can’t stand being talked about all over the town and pointed at.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Let me see anybody a-pointing at 'er,” said the truculent Mr. Silk; “let
+      “Let me see anybody a-pointing at ’er,” said the truculent Mr. Silk; “let
       me see ’em, that’s all.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9635,9 +9635,9 @@
       “Immediate?” said the astonished Mr. Silk.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “She 'asn’t got the nerve to send young Nugent about 'is business,”
-       explained Mr. Kybird; “she feels sorry for ’im, pore fellow; but 'e’s got
-      a loving and affectionate 'art, and she can’t bear ’im making love to 'er.
+      “She ’asn’t got the nerve to send young Nugent about ’is business,”
+       explained Mr. Kybird; “she feels sorry for ’im, pore fellow; but ’e’s got
+      a loving and affectionate ’art, and she can’t bear ’im making love to ’er.
       You can understand what it is, can’t you?”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9647,7 +9647,7 @@
     <p>
       “I’ve been thinking it over for some time,” resumed Mr. Kybird; “twisting
       it and turning it all ways, and the only thing I can see for it is for you
-      to be married on the strict q.t. Of course, if you don’t like—”
+      to be married on the strict <i>q.t.</i> Of course, if you don’t like—”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Like!” repeated the transported Mr. Silk. “I’ll go and be married now, if you like.”
@@ -9674,7 +9674,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Me and Teddy,” said Mr. Kybird, turning to her with a little bob, which
-      served him for a bow, “'ave just been having a little talk about old
+      served him for a bow, “’ave just been having a little talk about old
       times.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9688,15 +9688,15 @@
       “Wide open,” corroborated Mr. Silk.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “So I just came in to say ''Ow d’ye do?’” said Mr. Kybird.
+      “So I just came in to say ‘’Ow d’ye do?’” said Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
       Mrs. Silk’s sharp, white face turned from one to the other. “Ave you said
       it?” she inquired, blandly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I 'ave,” said Mr. Kybird, restraining Mr. Silk’s evident intention of hot
-      speech by a warning glance; “and now I’ll just toddle off 'ome.”
+      “I ’ave,” said Mr. Kybird, restraining Mr. Silk’s evident intention of hot
+      speech by a warning glance; “and now I’ll just toddle off ’ome.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “I’ll go a bit o’ the way with you,” said Edward Silk. “I feel as if a bit
@@ -9739,18 +9739,18 @@
       <figcaption>“He took up his candle and went off whistling.”</figcaption>
     </figure>
     <p>
-      “You must 'ave 'ad quite a nice walk,” said his mother, as she drew back
+      “You must ’ave ’ad quite a nice walk,” said his mother, as she drew back
       into the room and noted the brightness of his eye.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Yes,” was the reply.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I s’pose 'e’s been and asked you to the wedding?” said the sarcastic Mrs.
+      “I s’pose ’e’s been and asked you to the wedding?” said the sarcastic Mrs.
       Silk.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Her son started and, turning his back on her, wound up the clock. “Yes, 'e
+      Her son started and, turning his back on her, wound up the clock. “Yes, ’e
       has,” he said, with a sly grin.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -9758,7 +9758,7 @@
       breathlessly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Well, 'e has,” said her son, hugging himself over the joke. “And, what’s
+      “Well, ’e has,” said her son, hugging himself over the joke. “And, what’s
       more, I’m going.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -9848,16 +9848,16 @@
       them.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Take your 'and off,” raved Mr. Silk. “Leave 'er alone. 'Ow dare you? D’ye
-      hear me? 'Melia, I won’t 'ave it! I won’t 'ave it!”
+      “Take your ’and off,” raved Mr. Silk. “Leave ’er alone. ’Ow dare you? D’ye
+      hear me? ’Melia, I won’t ’ave it! I won’t ’ave it!”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Don’t be silly, Teddy,” remonstrated Mr. Nugent, following up Miss
       Kybird, as she edged away from him.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Leave 'er alone, d’ye 'ear?” yelled Mr. Silk, thumping the counter with
-      his small fist. “She’s my <i>wife!</i>”
+      “Leave ’er alone, d’ye ’ear?” yelled Mr. Silk, thumping the counter with
+      his small fist. “She’s my <em>wife!</em>”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Teddy’s mad,” said Mr. Nugent, calmly, “stark, staring, raving mad. Poor
@@ -9877,9 +9877,9 @@
       the other.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I am,” said Mr. Silk, fiercely. “It’s no use your winking at me; I’m not
-      going to 'ave any more of this nonsense. 'Melia, you go and get your 'at
-      on and come straight off 'ome with me.”
+      “<em>I</em> am,” said Mr. Silk, fiercely. “It’s no use your winking at me; I’m not
+      going to ’ave any more of this nonsense. ’Melia, you go and get your ’at
+      on and come straight off ’ome with me.”
      </p>
     <p>
       Mr. Kybird gave a warning cough. “Go easy, Teddy,” he murmured.
@@ -9909,7 +9909,7 @@
       got married.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “And if I see you putting your 'and on 'er shoulder ag’in” said Mr. Silk,
+      “And if I see you putting your ’and on ’er shoulder ag’in” said Mr. Silk,
       with alarming vagueness.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -9917,7 +9917,7 @@
       gravity.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Look 'ere, we don’t want none o’ your nonsense,” broke in the irate Mrs.
+      “Look ’ere, we don’t want none o’ your nonsense,” broke in the irate Mrs.
       Kybird, pushing her way past her husband and confronting the speaker.
     </p>
     <p>
@@ -9938,7 +9938,7 @@
     <p>
       Mr. Nugent bowed and walked past the counter. “And not even a bit of
       wedding-cake for me,” he said, shaking a reproachful head at the heated
-      Mr. Silk. “Why, I’d put you down first on my list.”
+      Mr. Silk. “Why, I’d put you down first on <em>my</em> list.”
      </p>
     <p>
       He paused at the door, and after a brief intimation that he would send for
@@ -9987,8 +9987,8 @@
       Nugent.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Certain sure, sir,” said Mr. Wilks, eagerly. “I was just 'aving a bit of
-      a chat with my neighbour, Mrs. Silk, 'ere, that’s all.”
+      “Certain sure, sir,” said Mr. Wilks, eagerly. “I was just ’aving a bit of
+      a chat with my neighbour, Mrs. Silk, ’ere, that’s all.”
      </p>
     <p>
       The lady in question removed her handkerchief from her eyes and gazed at
@@ -9996,7 +9996,7 @@
       conversation.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “She came over 'ere to tell me a bit o’ news,” he said, eyeing the young
+      “She came over ’ere to tell me a bit o’ news,” he said, eyeing the young
       man doubtfully. “It seems that Teddy——”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -10010,7 +10010,7 @@
       “And sadness,” added Mr. Nugent. “I hope that they will be happy.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “It struck me all of a 'eap,” said Mrs. Silk, rolling her handkerchief
+      “It struck me all of a ’eap,” said Mrs. Silk, rolling her handkerchief
       into a ball and placing it in her lap. “I was doing a bit of ironing when
       in walks Teddy with Amelia Kybird, and says they was married last Friday.
       I was that shaken I didn’t know what I did or what I said. Then I came
@@ -10024,7 +10024,7 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “What I’m to do, I don’t know,” continued Mrs. Silk, feebly. “You can’t
-      'ave two queens in one 'ouse, so to speak.”
+      ’ave two queens in one ’ouse, so to speak.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “But she was walking out with Teddy long ago,” urged Mr. Wilks. “It’s no
@@ -10047,7 +10047,7 @@
     <p>
       “You was talking about it,” corrected Mr. Wilks, in a hoarse voice. “You
       brought up the subject and I agreed with you—not that it matters to
-      me 'ow people get married. That’s their affair. Banns or license, it’s all
+      me ’ow people get married. That’s their affair. Banns or license, it’s all
       one to me.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -10076,8 +10076,8 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “It’s been a understood thing for a long time,” she said, slowly, “but I
-      couldn’t leave my son while 'e was single and nobody to look after ’im. A
-      good mother makes a good wife, so they say. A woman can’t always 'ave 'er
+      couldn’t leave my son while ’e was single and nobody to look after ’im. A
+      good mother makes a good wife, so they say. A woman can’t always ’ave ’er
       own way in everything, and if it’s not to be by banns, then by license it
       must be, I suppose.”
      </p>
@@ -10087,7 +10087,7 @@
       better husband than you do, Sam,” he added, in a low but severe voice.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Mrs. Silk gave a violent start. “Better husband than 'e does?” she cried,
+      Mrs. Silk gave a violent start. “<em>Better husband than ’e does?</em>” she cried,
       sharply. “Mr. Wilks ain’t married.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -10101,7 +10101,7 @@
       “That’s my business, sir,” he quavered, in offended tones.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “But you ain’t <i>married?</i>” screamed Mrs. Silk.
+      “But you ain’t <em>married?</em>” screamed Mrs. Silk.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Never mind,” said Nugent, pacifically. “Perhaps I ought not to have
@@ -10110,7 +10110,7 @@
      </p>
     <p>
       “Yes, sir,” said Mr. Wilks, in a voice which he strove hard to make
-      distinct; “especially 'ers.”
+      distinct; “especially ’ers.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “You—you never told me you were married,” said Mrs. Silk,
@@ -10119,7 +10119,7 @@
     <p>
       “I never said I wasn’t,” retorted the culprit, defiantly. “If people liked
       to think I was a single man, I don’t care; it’s got nothing to do with
-      them. Besides, she lives at Stepney, and I don’t 'ear from 'er once in six
+      them. Besides, she lives at Stepney, and I don’t ’ear from ’er once in six
       months; she don’t interfere with me and I don’t interfere with her.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -10156,7 +10156,7 @@
     <p>
       “Never mind,” said Mrs. Silk, recovering herself. “Never mind who it was.
       You wait till I go and tell Teddy,” she continued, turning to the
-      trembling Mr. Wilks. “If 'e’s got the 'art of a man in ’im you’ll see.”
+      trembling Mr. Wilks. “If ’e’s got the ’art of a man in ’im you’ll see.”
      </p>
     <p>
       With this dire threat, and turning occasionally to bestow another fierce
@@ -10170,8 +10170,8 @@
     </p>
     <p>
       “Teddy!” said Mr. Wilks, snapping his huge fingers. “I’m not afraid o’
-      fifty Teddies; but she might come back with ’im. If it 'adn’t ha’ been for
-      you, sir, I don’t know wot wouldn’t 'ave happened.”
+      fifty Teddies; but she might come back with ’im. If it ’adn’t ha’ been for
+      you, sir, I don’t know wot wouldn’t ’ave happened.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Go and draw some beer and get me a clean pipe,” said Nugent, dropping
@@ -10239,15 +10239,15 @@
       explanations.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “It ought not to 'ave happened,” he said, sharply.</p>
+      “It ought not to ’ave happened,” he said, sharply.</p>
     <p>“It was Teddy done it,” said Mr. Kybird, humbly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      Mr. Smith shrugged his shoulders. “It wouldn’t 'ave happened if I’d been
+      Mr. Smith shrugged his shoulders. “It wouldn’t ’ave happened if I’d been
       there,” he observed, arrogantly.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “I don’t see 'ow” began Mr. Kybird.
+      “I don’t see ’ow” began Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
       “No, o’ course you don’t,” said his friend. “Still, it’s no use making a
@@ -10343,22 +10343,22 @@
       from Mr. Kybird.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Wot 'ave you got to say for yourself?” demanded that injured person, in
+      “Wot ’ave you got to say for yourself?” demanded that injured person, in
       tones of suppressed passion. “Wot do you mean by it? You’ve made a pretty
       mess of it with your cleverness.”
      </p>
     <p>
       “Wonderful old gentleman, ain’t he?” said the discomfited Mr. Smith.
-      “Fancy ’im getting the better o’ me. Fancy me being 'ad. I took it all in
+      “Fancy ’im getting the better o’ <em>me</em>. Fancy <em>me</em> being ’ad. I took it all in
       as innercent as you please.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Ah, you’re a clever fellow, you are,” said Mr. Kybird, bitterly. “'Ere’s
-      Amelia lost young Nugent and 'is five 'undred all through you. It’s a
+      “Ah, you’re a clever fellow, you are,” said Mr. Kybird, bitterly. “’Ere’s
+      Amelia lost young Nugent and ’is five ’undred all through you. It’s a
       got-up thing between old Swann and the Nugent lot, that’s wot it is.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Looks like it,” admitted Mr. Smith; “but fancy 'is picking me out for 'is
+      “Looks like it,” admitted Mr. Smith; “but fancy ’is picking <em>me</em> out for ’is
       games. That’s wot gets over me.”
      </p>
     <p>
@@ -10366,11 +10366,11 @@
       a threatening manner. “Wot are you going to do about it?”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “You shall 'ave it,” said the boarding-master, with sudden blandness, “and
-      'Melia shall 'ave 'er five 'undred.”
+      “You shall ’ave it,” said the boarding-master, with sudden blandness, “and
+      ’Melia shall ’ave ’er five ’undred.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “'Ow?” inquired the other, staring.
+      “’Ow?” inquired the other, staring.
     </p>
     <p>
       “It’s as easy as easy,” said Mr. Smith, who had been greatly galled by his
@@ -10490,7 +10490,7 @@
       “I am sorry,” said Hardy, again.
     </p>
     <p>
-      “Good evening,” said the captain
+      “Good evening,” said the captain.
     </p>
     <p>
       “Good evening.”
@@ -10505,7 +10505,7 @@
       I’ll forbid you the house.”
      </p>
     <p>
-      “Forbid me the house?” repeated the astonished Hardy.
+      “<em>Forbid me the house?</em>” repeated the astonished Hardy.
     </p>
     <p>
       “That’s what I said,” replied the other; “that’s plain English, isn’t it?”