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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 9840 ***
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 9840 ***
 
 
 
@@ -419,18 +418,18 @@ full his match in spirit, and, thanks to being a Cockney! ten times his
 match in science. He had not built a white great coat or drunk blue ruin
 at Ben Burn’s for nothing!
 
-Oh! how beautifully he fought! how admirably straight he hit! and his
-stops quick as lightning! and his followings up confounding his
-adversary with their painful celerity! Smith alike puzzled and punished,
-yet proud in his strength, hit round, and wild, and false, and foamed
-like a furious elephant. For ten successive rounds the result was
-dubious; but in the eleventh the strength of Smith began to fail him,
-and the men were more fairly matched. “Go it, Ranger! go it, Ranger!”
- halloed the Greyites; “No stranger! no stranger!” eagerly bawled the
-more numerous party. “Smith’s floored, by Jove!” exclaimed Poynings, who
-was Grey’s second. “At it again! at it again!” exclaimed all. And now,
-when Smith must certainly have given in, suddenly stepped forward Mr.
-Mallett, accompanied by--Dallas!
+Oh! how beautifully he fought! how admirably straight he hit! and
+his stops quick as lightning! and his followings up confounding
+his adversary with their painful celerity! Smith alike puzzled and
+punished, yet proud in his strength, hit round, and wild, and false,
+and foamed like a furious elephant. For ten successive rounds the
+result was dubious; but in the eleventh the strength of Smith began
+to fail him, and the men were more fairly matched. “Go it, Ranger! go
+it, Ranger!” halloed the Greyites; “No stranger! no stranger!” eagerly
+bawled the more numerous party. “Smith’s floored, by Jove!” exclaimed
+Poynings, who was Grey’s second. “At it again! at it again!” exclaimed
+all. And now, when Smith must certainly have given in, suddenly stepped
+forward Mr. Mallett, accompanied by--Dallas!
 
 “How, Mr. Grey! No answer, sir; I understand that you have always an
 answer ready. I do not quote Scripture lightly, Mr. Grey; but ‘Take heed
@@ -2429,7 +2428,7 @@ know grief, were acting unmeaning gambols near the door.
 “Oh! pray beware, your honour,” earnestly whispered the poor dame, as
 she entered the cottage with the visitor.
 
-Vivian walked up with a silent step to the end of “the room, where
+Vivian walked up with a silent step to the end of the room, where
 Conyers was sitting. He remembered this little room, when he thought it
 the very model of the abode of an English husbandman. The neat row of
 plates, and the well-scoured utensils, and the fine old Dutch clock, and
@@ -2937,22 +2936,22 @@ brother attorneys began to wonder “how Toad got on! and who Toad’s
 clients were!”
 
 A few more years rolled over, and Mr. Toad was seen riding in the Park
-at a classical hour, attended by a groom in a classical livery. And now
-“the profession” wondered still more, and significant looks were
+at a classical hour, attended by a groom in a classical livery. And
+now “the profession” wondered still more, and significant looks were
 interchanged by “the respectable houses:” and flourishing practitioners
-in the City shrugged up their shoulders, and talked mysteriously of
-“money business,” and “some odd work in annuities.” In spite, however,
-of the charitable surmises of his brother lawyers, it must be confessed
-that nothing of even an equivocal nature ever transpired against the
-character of the flourishing Mr. Toad, who, to complete the
+in the City shrugged up their shoulders, and talked mysteriously
+of “money business,” and “some odd work in annuities.” In spite,
+however, of the charitable surmises of his brother lawyers, it must
+be confessed that nothing of even an equivocal nature ever transpired
+against the character of the flourishing Mr. Toad, who, to complete the
 mortification of his less successful rivals, married, and at the same
 time moved from Jermyn Street to Cavendish Square. The new residence
-of--Mr. Toad had previously been the mansion of a noble client, and one
+of Mr. Toad had previously been the mansion of a noble client, and one
 whom, as the world said, Mr. Toad “had got out of difficulties.” This
-significant phrase will probably throw some light upon the nature of the
-mysterious business of our prosperous practitioner. Noble Lords who have
-been in difficulties will not much wonder at the prosperity of those who
-get them out.
+significant phrase will probably throw some light upon the nature of
+the mysterious business of our prosperous practitioner. Noble Lords who
+have been in difficulties will not much wonder at the prosperity of
+those who get them out.
 
 About this time Mr. Toad became acquainted with Lord Mounteney, a
 nobleman in great distress, with fifty thousand per annum. His Lordship
@@ -3154,7 +3153,7 @@ should not pass unrecorded.
 
 Sir Christopher Mowbray is member for the county of ----; and member for
 the county he intends to be next election, although he is in his
-seventy-ninth year, for he can still follow a fox with as pluck a heart
+seventy-ninth year, for he can still follow a fox with as plucky a heart
 and with as stout a voice as any squire in Christendom. Sir Christopher,
 it must be confessed, is rather peculiar in his ideas. His grandson,
 Peregrine Mowbray, who is as pert a genius as the applause of a
@@ -4055,7 +4054,7 @@ explicit enough for a Spartan.
 “Certain Noblemen and Gentlemen of eminence and influence, hitherto
 considered as props of the ---- party, are about to take a novel and
 decided course next Session. It is to obtain the aid and personal
-co-operation of Mr. Cleveland that I am now in Wales.
+co-operation of Mr. Cleveland that I am now in Wales.”
 
 “Mr. Grey, I have promised to listen to you with patience: you are too
 young a man to know much, perhaps, of the history of so insignificant a
@@ -4921,7 +4920,7 @@ in the sixteenth.”
 
 “You may sneer, sir; but I ask you, if there are spirits so superior to
 that of the slumbering Lord of this castle as those of Vivian Grey and
-Amelia Lorraine, why may there not be spirits proportionately superior
+Amalia Lorraine, why may there not be spirits proportionately superior
 to our own?”
 
 “If you are keeping me from my bed, Mrs. Lorraine, merely to lecture my
@@ -5537,7 +5536,7 @@ principles,’ and ‘steamboats to Mexico,’ and the earnest look which
 every one had in the room. How different to the vacant gaze that we have
 been accustomed to! I was really particularly struck by the
 circumstance. Every one at Premium’s looked full of some great plan, as
-if the fate of empires wag on his very breath. I hardly knew whether
+if the fate of empires was on his very breath. I hardly knew whether
 they were most like conspirators, or gamblers, or the lions of a public
 dinner, conscious of an universal gaze, and consequently looking
 proportionately interesting. One circumstance particularly struck me: as
@@ -5553,7 +5552,7 @@ apparently a foreigner, and who stepped on with great though gracious
 dignity. Being curious to know who this great man was, I found that this
 was an ambassador, the representative of a recognised state.
 
-“‘Pon my honour, when I saw all this, I could not refrain from
+“’Pon my honour, when I saw all this, I could not refrain from
 moralising on the magic of wealth; and when I just remembered the embryo
 plot of some young Hussar officers to cut the son of the magician, I
 rather smiled; but while I, with even greater reverence than all others,
@@ -5787,7 +5786,7 @@ be drawn from the sacred and solitary fountain of your own feelings.
 “Active as you have now become in the great scenes of human affairs, I
 would not have you be guided by any fanciful theories of morals or of
 human nature. Philosophers have amused themselves by deciding on human
-actions by systems; but, as these system? are of the most opposite
+actions by systems; but, as these systems are of the most opposite
 natures, it is evident that each philosopher, in reflecting his own
 feelings in the system he has so elaborately formed, has only painted
 his own character.
@@ -6598,7 +6597,7 @@ We will not affect to give any description of the conduct of the
 Marquess of Carabas at this moment. He raved, he stamped, he
 blasphemed! but the whole of his abuse was levelled against his former
 “monstrous clever” young friend; of whose character he had so often
-boasted that his own was she prototype, but who was now an adventurer, a
+boasted that his own was the prototype, but who was now an adventurer, a
 swindler, a scoundrel, a liar, a base, deluding, flattering, fawning
 villain, &c. &c. &c. &c,
 
@@ -7714,7 +7713,7 @@ off his hussar jacket, and began to imitate a monkey; an animal which,
 by the faint light, in his singular costume, he very much resembled. How
 amusing were his pranks! He first plundered a rice plantation, and then
 he cracked cocoa-nuts; then he washed his face and arranged his toilet
-with, his right paw; and finally he ran a race with his own tail, which
+with his right paw; and finally he ran a race with his own tail, which
 humorous appendage to his body was very wittily performed for the
 occasion by a fragment, of an old tarred rope. His gambols were so
 diverting that they even extracted applause from his enemy the one-eyed
@@ -8575,7 +8574,7 @@ skilful plunderer that ever rifled the dying of both sides. Before he
 was twenty he followed the army as a petty chapman, and amassed an
 excellent fortune by re-acquiring after a battle the very goods and
 trinkets which he had sold at an immense price before it. Such a wretch
-could do nothing but prosper, and in due tune the sutler’s brat became a
+could do nothing but prosper, and in due time the sutler’s brat became a
 commissary-general. He made millions in a period of general starvation,
 and cleared at least a hundred thousand dollars by embezzling the shoe
 leather during a retreat. He is now a baron, covered with orders, and
@@ -8668,10 +8667,10 @@ walked up to the table.
 “Ah! Marquess, what fortune to-night?”
 
 “Bad! I have lost my Napoleon: I never risk further. There is that
-cursed crusty old De Trumpet son, persisting, as usual, in his run of
-bad luck; because he never will give in. Trust me, my dear De
-Konigstein, it will end in his ruin; and then, if there be a sale of his
-effects, I shall, perhaps, get his snuff-box; a-a-h!”
+cursed crusty old De Trumpetson, persisting, as usual, in his run
+of bad luck; because he never will give in. Trust me, my dear De
+Konigstein, it will end in his ruin; and then, if there be a sale of
+his effects, I shall, perhaps, get his snuff-box; a-a-h!”
 
 “Come, shall I throw down a couple of Napoleons on joint account. I do
 not care much for play myself; but I suppose, at Ems, we must make up
@@ -9978,7 +9977,7 @@ humour tonight. What is the matter? This is not at all a temper to come
 to a fête in. What! won’t Miss Fane dance with you?’” asked the Baron,
 with an arched smile.
 
-“I wonder wind can induce your Excellency to talk such nonsense!”
+“I wonder what can induce your Excellency to talk such nonsense!”
 
 “Your Excellency! by Jove, that’s good! What the deuce is the matter
 with the man? It is Miss Fane, then, eh?”
@@ -10835,7 +10834,7 @@ Salvinski and his friend?”
 
 “I shall then have an opportunity of ridding myself of that the
 acquisition of which, to me, has been matter of great sorrow. Your
-honour Is saved. I will discharge the claims of Salvinski and
+honour is saved. I will discharge the claims of Salvinski and
 his friend.”
 
 “Impossible! I cannot allow--”
@@ -12120,7 +12119,7 @@ thou hast conquered; but to feed after midnight, to destroy the power of
 catching the delicate flavour, to annihilate the faculty of detecting
 the undefinable näre, is heresy, most rank and damnable heresy!
 Therefore at this hour soundeth no plate or platter, jingleth no knife
-or culinary instrument, in the PALACE or THE WINES. Yet, in
+or culinary instrument, in the PALACE OF THE WINES. Yet, in
 consideration of thy youth, and that on the whole thou hast tasted thy
 liquor like a proper man, from which we augur the best expectations of
 the manner in which thou wilt drink it, we feel confident that our
@@ -12574,7 +12573,7 @@ cheer.”
 
 “What is bread for a traveller’s breakfast? But I daresay my lord will
 be contented; young men are so easily pleased when there is a pretty
-girl in the case; you know that, you wench I you do, you little hussy;
+girl in the case; you know that, you wench! you do, you little hussy;
 you are taking advantage of it.”
 
 Something like a smile lit up the face of the sullen woman when she
@@ -13707,7 +13706,7 @@ ignorant that His Highness has the misfortune of being a mediatised
 Prince; but what is the exact story about him? I have heard some odd
 rumours, some--”
 
-It is a curious story, but I am afraid you will find it rather long.
+“It is a curious story, but I am afraid you will find it rather long.
 Nevertheless, if you really visit Reisenburg, it may be of use to you to
 know something of the singular characters you will meet there. In the
 first place, you say you know that Little Lilliput is a mediatised
@@ -14085,14 +14084,14 @@ Grand Duke’s name is Charles, she is styled Madame Carolina.”
 
 “And what kind of lady is Madame Carolina?” asked Vivian.
 
-Philosophical! piquant! Parisian! a genius, according to her friends;
-who, as in fact she is a Queen, are of course the whole world. Though a
-German by family, she is a Frenchwoman by birth. Educated in the
-spiritual saloons of the French metropolis, she has early imbibed superb
-ideas of the perfectibility of man, and of the “science” of
+“Philosophical! piquant! Parisian! a genius, according to her friends;
+who, as in fact she is a Queen, are of course the whole world. Though
+a German by family, she is a Frenchwoman by birth. Educated in the
+spiritual saloons of the French metropolis, she has early imbibed
+superb ideas of the perfectibility of man, and of the “science” of
 conversation, on both which subjects you will not be long at Court ere
-you hear her descant; demonstrating by the brilliancy of her ideas the
-possibility of the one, and by the fluency of her language her
+you hear her descant; demonstrating by the brilliancy of her ideas
+the possibility of the one, and by the fluency of her language her
 acquaintance with the other. She is much younger than her husband, and,
 though not exactly a model for Phidias, a fascinating woman. Variety is
 the talisman by which she commands all hearts and gained her monarch’s.
@@ -14101,45 +14100,46 @@ is not capricious. Each day displays a new accomplishment as regularly
 as it does a new costume; but as the acquirement seems only valued by
 its possessor as it may delight others, so the dress seems worn, not so
 much to gratify her own vanity as to please her friends’ tastes. Genius
-is her idol; and with her genius is found in everything. She speaks in
-equal ruptures of an opera dancer and an epic poet. Her ambition is to
-converse on all subjects; and by a judicious management of a great mass
-of miscellaneous reading, and by indefatigable exertions to render
-herself mistress of the prominent points of the topics of the day, she
-appears to converse on all subjects with ability. She takes the
-liveliest interest in the progress of mind, in all quarters of the
-globe; and imagines that she should, at the same time, immortalise
-herself and benefit her species, could she only establish a Quarterly
-Review in Ashantee and a scientific Gazette at Timbuctoo.
+is her idol; and with her genius is found in everything. She speaks
+in equal raptures of an opera dancer and an epic poet. Her ambition
+is to converse on all subjects; and by a judicious management of a
+great mass of miscellaneous reading, and by indefatigable exertions
+to render herself mistress of the prominent points of the topics
+of the day, she appears to converse on all subjects with ability.
+She takes the liveliest interest in the progress of mind, in all
+quarters of the globe; and imagines that she should, at the same time,
+immortalise herself and benefit her species, could she only establish
+a Quarterly Review in Ashantee and a scientific Gazette at Timbuctoo.
 Notwithstanding her sudden elevation, no one has ever accused her of
 arrogance, or pride, or ostentation. Her liberal principles and her
-enlightened views are acknowledged by all. She advocates equality in her
-circle of privileged nobles, and is enthusiastic on the rights of man in
-a country where justice is a favour. Her boast is to be surrounded by
-men of genius, and her delight to correspond with the most celebrated
-persons of all countries. She is herself a literary character of no mean
-celebrity. Few months have elapsed since enraptured Reisenburg hailed
-from her glowing pen two neat octavos, bearing the title of ‘Memoirs of
-the Court of Charlemagne,’ which give an interesting and accurate
-picture of the age, and delight the modern public with vivid descriptions
-of the cookery, costume, and conversation of the eighth century. You
-smile, my friend, at Madame Carolina’s production. Do not you agree with
-me that it requires no mean talent to convey a picture of the bustle of
-a levée during the middle ages? Conceive Sir Oliver looking in at his
-club! and fancy the small talk of Roland during a morning visit! Yet
-even the fame of this work is to be eclipsed by Madame’s forthcoming
-quarto of ‘Haroun al Raschid and his Times.’ This, it is whispered, is
-to be a chef-d’oeuvre, enriched by a chronological arrangement, by a
-celebrated oriental scholar, of all the anecdotes in the Arabian Nights
-relating to the Caliph. It is, of course, the sun of Madame’s patronage
-that has hatched into noxious life the swarm of sciolists who now infest
-the Court, and who are sapping the husband’s political power while they
+enlightened views are acknowledged by all. She advocates equality in
+her circle of privileged nobles, and is enthusiastic on the rights
+of man in a country where justice is a favour. Her boast is to be
+surrounded by men of genius, and her delight to correspond with the
+most celebrated persons of all countries. She is herself a literary
+character of no mean celebrity. Few months have elapsed since
+enraptured Reisenburg hailed from her glowing pen two neat octavos,
+bearing the title of ‘Memoirs of the Court of Charlemagne,’ which
+give an interesting and accurate picture of the age, and delight the
+modern public with vivid descriptions of the cookery, costume, and
+conversation of the eighth century. You smile, my friend, at Madame
+Carolina’s production. Do not you agree with me that it requires no
+mean talent to convey a picture of the bustle of a levée during the
+middle ages? Conceive Sir Oliver looking in at his club! and fancy
+the small talk of Roland during a morning visit! Yet even the fame
+of this work is to be eclipsed by Madame’s forthcoming quarto of
+‘Haroun al Raschid and his Times.’ This, it is whispered, is to be a
+chef-d’oeuvre, enriched by a chronological arrangement, by a celebrated
+oriental scholar, of all the anecdotes in the Arabian Nights relating
+to the Caliph. It is, of course, the sun of Madame’s patronage that has
+hatched into noxious life the swarm of sciolists who now infest the
+Court, and who are sapping the husband’s political power while they
 are establishing the wife’s literary reputation. So much for Madame
 Carolina! I need hardly add that during your short stay at Court you
 will be delighted with her. If ever you know her as well as I do, you
 will find her vain, superficial, heartless; her sentiment a system, her
 enthusiasm exaggeration, and her genius merely a clever adoption of the
-profundity of others.
+profundity of others.”
 
 “And Beckendorff and the lady are not friendly?” asked Vivian, who was
 delighted with his communicative companion.
@@ -15228,10 +15228,8 @@ only when he heard Vivian professing his ignorance of the game that it
 occurred to him that to play at whist was hardly the object for which he
 had travelled from Turriparva.
 
-“An Englishman not know whist!” said Mr. Beckendorff:
-
-“Ridiculous! You do know it. Let us play! Mr. von Philipson, I know, has
-no objection.”
+“An Englishman not know whist!” said Mr. Beckendorff: “ridiculous! You
+do know it. Let us play! Mr. von Philipson, I know, has no objection.”
 
 “But, my good sir,” said the Prince, “although previous to conversation
 I may have no objection to join in a little amusement, still it appears
@@ -17351,7 +17349,7 @@ their young at them. To a countenance which otherwise would have been
 calm, and perhaps pensive, they gave an expression of extreme vivacity
 and unusual animation, and perhaps of restlessness and arrogance: it
 might have been courage. The lady was dressed in the costume of a
-Chanoinesse??? of a Couvent des dames nobles; an institution to which
+Chanoinesse of a Couvent des dames nobles; an institution to which
 Protestant and Catholic ladles are alike admitted. The orange-coloured
 cordon of her canonry was slung gracefully over her plain black silk
 dress, and a diamond cross hung below her waist.
@@ -18243,7 +18241,7 @@ secure is his dungeon, trusty his guards, overpowering his chains.
 To-morrow he wakes to be impaled. A gentle noise, so gentle that the
 spectator almost deems it unintentional, is now heard. A white figure
 appears behind the dusky gate; is it a guard or a torturer? The gate
-softly opens, and a female conies forward. Gulnare was represented by a
+softly opens, and a female comes forward. Gulnare was represented by a
 girl with the body of a Peri and the soul of a poetess. The Harem Queen
 advances with an agitated step; she holds in her left hand a lamp, and
 in the girdle of her light dress is a dagger. She reaches with a
@@ -19008,7 +19006,7 @@ that we must not allow even one hour to be dull.”
 
 As Vivian was about to reply, he heard the joyous voice of young
 Maximilian; it sounded very near. The royal party was approaching. The
-Baronet expressed her earnest desire to avoid it; and as to advance or
+Baroness expressed her earnest desire to avoid it; and as to advance or
 to retreat, in these labyrinthine walks, was almost equally hazardous,
 they retired into one of those green recesses which we have before
 mentioned; indeed it was the very evergreen grove in the centre of which
@@ -19093,7 +19091,7 @@ head, and both were silent.
 His arm is round her waist, gently he bends his head, their speaking
 eyes meet, and their trembling lips cling into a kiss!
 
-A seal of love and purity and faith I and the chaste moon need not have
+A seal of love and purity and faith! and the chaste moon need not have
 blushed as she lit up the countenances of the lovers.
 
 “O! lady, why are we not happy?”
@@ -20660,11 +20658,4 @@ that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair.
 THE END
 
 
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