Price, postpaid, 50 cents per copy or the four books for $1.75. HURST & COMPANY, Publishers, NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcriber's Notes: 1. Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards. 2. Missing text, truncated by printer: p. 131: "mother has gone far beyond our means. She hasn't" 3. Several places in the text suggest missing or incorrect text: p. 15: "I met Effie the night a came home" replaced with "I met Effie the night I came home" p. 145: "Now go and much in train for the afternoon as you can." No replacement made. p. 120: "but she for certain that he would come" replaced with "but she knew for certain that he would come" 4. Superfluous, repeated disconnected text on two sequential lines: p. 168: changed voice. "Before God, I couldn't help it." a changed voice. "Before God, I couldn't help it." 5. Typographic errors corrected: seventh page of advertisements: "terrestial" to "terrestrial." "stumbling-blocks in their terrestrial path" p. 24 "undestad" to "understand." "Now you understand" p. 111 "helds" to "held." "when she held the purse strings."