PRINTED BY KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.; AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES. * * * * * Transcriber's note: Most of the apparent printers' errors have been retained. A few have been changed, including the one listed below. Line 3920 in Chapter X where a comma was inserted in the phrase 'he would secure the competence he had yearned for, for so many years'.