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A DEFINITIVE EDITION OP GEORGE W. CABLE’S DR. SEVIER

Larzy N. Landrum

A Dissertation

Submitted to the Graduate School of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

June 1973

Approved by Doctoral Committee

______Advisor Department of English

Graduate School Representative

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ii Wa-a\

ABSTRACT Vo, VU- 556849

The printer’s copy manuscript of Dr. Sevier served as the copy-text for an edited edition of the novel. The holograph text was collated with the first printed text which appeared in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, the first edition published by James R. Osgood and subsequent issues of the novel published by Charles Scribner’s. Further collations of both surviving manuscript fragments and the David Douglas edition revealed that primary substantive authority is shared by the printer’s copy and Century texts. Over 4,000 accidental variants were attributed to compositors of the de Vinne Press. Substantives were located, authority was assigned and the results listed in a textual apparatus. Multiple word-division lists were compiled, as were lists of spelling preferences. Compositorial stints, locations and total produc­ tion were identified and used to isolate categories of variants. Most accidentals in the copy-text were treated categorically on the basis of compositorial practice. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page INTRODUCTION...... 1

EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS TO THE COPY-TEXT...... 10

REJECTED CENTUR Y AND OSGOOD SUBSTANTIVE READINGS...... 26

WORD-DIVISION...... 35 Recurring Hyphenation Forms...... 35 End of Line Hyphenation...... 46

SPELLING LIST...... 49

COMPOSITORI AL STINTS IN THE CENTURY TEXT 50 INTRODUCTION

In the early months of 1881 word began passing among publishers in New York and Boston that George W. Cable was working on his second novel. The rumor had an element of truth in it, but the novel was at that time no more than a few scattered notes, perhaps some outline sketches on scrap paper and the germ of an idea in Cable’s mind. Nevertheless, the revelation was enough to evoke negotiations from the Charles Scribner’s firm and also from James Ripley Osgood of Boston, a close friend of Colonel George E. Waring. It had been Waring who had relayed the information from New Orleans to New York during his work with Cable on the government’s History . . . of New Orleans. . . . Waring was also able to act as Cable’s agent among the editors and succeeded in enveloping them in a high bid for the novel. Several of Scribner’s editors and Charles Scribner himself tried to per­ suade Cable to place the manuscript with them. After hearing that Osgood was interested in drawing Cable away from Scribner’s, Edward L. Burlingame wrote to Cable on behalf of Scribner, saying, “I say frankly that I hope it may stay with this house. ... I have sincere literary interest in seeing [your books] here. Like all real work, they help a man out of the pessimistic wood into which he gets over the current literary bric-a-brack; and I hope we may have them among the evidences that a better time has begun. —I know that Mr. Scrib­ ner feels as strongly as I do about this, and that he would regret especially to have any of them go elsewhere. I think you may always rely on his doing what he can to make it pos­ sible for you to give them to us.”1 In spite of this plea, Scribner was able to secure only the rights to serial publication in Scribner’s Monthly, a magazine which, due to internal tensions, would become The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine before it featured Cable’s Dr. Sevier. Though Cable signed with Osgood on the seventh of June, publication would not begin in the Century until November 1883 and would not be issued in cloth by Osgood until September 1884, simultaneous with the last installment in the October Century.2 Its publication in cloth, however, coincided with Cable’s rise to celebrity status in the literary world in the winter of 1884. Programs made up of advance sheets from Dr. Sevier probably contributed sig­ nificantly to Cable’s popularity and literary prestige. But his emergence into literary prominence started several years earlier. Cable had begun writing seriously as a contributor to the New Orleans Times- Picayune in 1860. His “Drop Shot” column appeared weekly and sometimes daily after February 1870 and earned him a journalist’s post with the newspaper.3 While his style improved with time, his interests in social and political reform in the South broadened considerably.4 His prose lost much of the flacid quality imitative of the Southern Roman­ tics and began to achieve an element of realism closer to his later style. At the same time he was able to begin developing the complex structural forces which Richard Chase saw

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culminating in his first novel, The Grandissimes (1880).s The complexity of these forces became apparent during the period from 1873 to 1878 as the stories to be collected in Old Creole Days (1879) appeared in Scribner’s Magazine. The Grandissimes offered a sweeping reinterpretation of the Southern myth, fore­ shadowing Faulkner’s Absolom, Absolom, while Dr. Sevier is a social critic’s novel of the most viable elements of Southern Christian consciousness. From his earliest stories Cable’s fiction was based on accounts of incidents and predicaments known to him. Arlin Turner notes that “there is a ring of immediacy in Dr. Sevier. For almost every detail of the book Cable could supplement his customary research with his own observations.”6 Cable’s appeal in the North was based on a complexity of cultural and literary factors. He evoked a sense of nostalgia for the old more Romantic South, though critical readers could sense the irony between Cable’s use of the old South of the myth and his rendering of the dour social and moral implications of the myth. Similar to this appeal was the attraction of the exotic history of New Orleans. A cosmopolitan city, it exuded Latin customs and colorful celebrations. It had mixed races and was rich in strange dialects. It was a hotbed of Latin Catholicism and Haitian voodoo, both considered wickedly exciting by Protestant New Englanders. Cable’s parents had been a part of the flood of Protestant Americans who invaded the city after the turn of the Nineteenth Century. An outsider himself to the estab­ lished Creole aristocracy, he presented to the reader the cultural insight of a charming and sophisticated house guest. But his writing also reflects a warm intimacy with Southern man­ ners and emotions that have not been duplicated. Cable’s editors seem to have been as charmed by his character sketches and colorful background as his poetic vision, and more by his traditional Southern referents than his social philosophy. This is especially true of the observations of Southern life and conditions in Dr. Sevier. He received the central story from his physician, Dr. D. Warren Brickell, who told Cable of a young couple’s troubles in New Orleans. In the novel

Dr. Brickell became Dr. Sevier, as the author himself stated. He had come from South Carolina, Sevier from Virginia. Both had offices in Carondelet Street; both practiced in the Charity Hospital and held the chair of obstetrics at the New Orleans School of Medicine; both were active in civic affairs and often addressed political gatherings. The fic­ tional doctor owed to his original also something of his brusqueness, independence of thought, and skepticism. Brickell took a leading part in the political struggles of the board of managers of the company owning the Picayune.7

While engaged in the writing of Dr. Sevier, Cable was also publishing factual essays condemn­ ing the conditions in Louisiana prisons and asylums, the historical sketch of New Orleans with Colonel Waring, and the essays for the Century which would constitute The Creoles of 3

Louisiana. After the meetings with his publishers in-June of 1881, Cable returned to New Orleans flushed with the success of his contractual arrangements. In a letter to Louise he mentions that Charles “Scribner acknowledges himself rather harshly disappointed at my giving my next novel to Osgoods, [sic] but I explained it as to make it plain that it was not because of dissatisfaction and Mr. Burlingame and he are mollified.”8 Con­ tinuing to work on the novel while attending to his other interests, Cable sent the first few chapters to Robert Underwood Johnson in July of 1882. Johnson’s response was warm but certainly not ecstatic, saying, “It is pleasant reading as far as it goes and we shall be glad to see the rest. It is a little lacking in chic and grasp but this may be made up in strength of plot. . . . There is something quiet and nice about it.”9 Worried about the problem of his finances, the slow work of the novel, his forth­ coming history of the New Orleans Creoles and other matters, Cable returned to New York in the fall of 1882. Maintaining a grueling pace he wrote on 11 October that he had written “a whole new chapter in [his] novel” that day.10 He returned to New Orleans late in the fall and then left for a winter reading tour, including in his program a comic episode in­ volving Narcisse and his popular selection entitled “Mary’s Night Ride,” both from Dr. Sevier. Returning again to New Orleans after his reading tour, he worked on the third ink draft of the novel from early in 1883 until the first of June. He sent 427 pages to Gilder who wrote on June eighth that he would take it with him to his country house where, he said, he would “work over it . . . very carefully” during the weekend.11 On the eighteenth Gilder returned the manuscript and sent Cable several pages of strong criticism. Placing an X at the top of each page to which he objected, he told Cable to bear each X “with Christian fortitude.” Gilder went on to call his own remarks “little drops of acid scattered on your pages, which are not at all meant to sour your mind, but to eat out various spots and blemishes which I have . . . encountered.” He suggested that in choosing “the most painful and sordid theme that exists, ...” the novel could “never be thoroughly good to the taste.”12 Though he praised Cable for the rendering of Narcisse and a number of minor characters, he criticized Mary as being distastefully pure.13 His primary objections, however, centered on the didactic piety which he felt grossly weakened the novel and the descriptions of the social conditions and manners which offended his sense of literary propriety. Such broadly sweeping criticism of the novel suggested considerable revision if it were to be taken literally, but the novel was scheduled to begin in the November number and Cable was admittedly a slow writer. Gilder, perhaps feeling that he had overstepped his editorial responsibility in the situation, wrote the fol­ lowing day to alleviate the harshness of his complaints and suggest that the novel was quite acceptable as it was written.14 Cable did not acknowledge the return of the manuscript and instead wrote of a plan for what was to be his Strange True Stories of Louisiana. By the twenty-fifth of July the 4

Century editors were becoming anxious. They had scheduled the first installment for November and had arranged for Lafcadio Hearn to describe “The Scenes of Cable’s Romances” in the same number. William Carey wrote for Robert Underwood Johnson and Gilder himself urged Cable to express the manuscript as soon as possible. The first 504 pages of the manuscript arrived on August seventh and Johnson was pleased with the results. Gilder asked in a letter dated the day before if Cable had been “able to ‘trim’ that [most objectionable] 1st installment a little,” and Johnson added to his own letter high praise for Cable’s work.15 Cable returned the revised copy perhaps too quickly. In his compliance with Gilder’s suggestions for removing some of the more didactic elements, he inadvertently removed the introduction of Narcisse from the opening chapters. Discovering his error he sent further revisions to Johnson in the middle of August.16 Narcisse, who appears in Chapter II in the printer’s copy, had not appeared until Chapter IX in the August version. The strain of work and his continuous financial straits were beginning to wear the author down. He had suggested the series of true stories to earn more money, but Johnson could offer only the possibility of publishing “one or two” Creole songs each month to help “in calling attention to Dr. Sevier.”11 Cable returned to New York again in the fall of 1883 to finish the novel and on October sixth he was able to write to Louise, “I am writing the last chapter of the novel. It goes slow, but I hope to launch it today.” Later in the same letter he added, “Wish me joy—the novel is finished.”18 Finally, he wrote on the seventeenth, “Dr. Sevier is done. Entirely off my hands except the regular monthly proof-readings.”19 Throughout the following months Cable conducted his celebrated and highly suc­ cessful reading tour with Mark Twain.20 Johnson continued to praise the effectiveness of the novel and noted especially the war scenes and descriptions of the home fronts as accurate and moving.21 But few readers have seen the novel in its most effective form. Much of its flavor has been lost through progressive corruption of the text in the hands of successive printers. The following discussion and apparatus are an attempt to provide the closest possible approximation of Cable’s final artistic efforts with the novel. The copy-text to be correlated with the apparatus is the printer’s copy holograph manuscript in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University. Written in blue ink on five by eight inch ruled paper the holograph lacks only page 590. Pages are numbered 1-18, lS^SO, 25016-251, 251&-252, 25216-285, 28516-293, 29316-589 and 591-644. Sheets having multiple numbers include 10 & 11, 141 & 142, 180 & 181, 207 & 208, 217 & 218, 227 & 228, 328 & 329 & 330, and 375 & 376. Two additional pages, identified as “Dr. Sevier frag.” are numbered 184 and 185 and were substituted in compo­ sition at the de Vinne Press for pages of the same numbers, between asterisks, in the printer’s copy. The manuscript contains compositor identification, proof readers’ marks, 5

ink corrections, and pencil markings in four hands in addition to Cable’s. One appears to be R. W. Gilder’s, one a printing shop foreman, another a compositor’s and the last an unidentified hand which enters after publication of the novel by Osgood. Additional manuscript fragments survive. Fifty-two sheets on six by nine and one half inch ruled paper from the second or third draft are located at Columbia University. Included are pages 58-69, 76-84, 96-109, 111-113, 140-150 and 328-330. The University of Virginia holds ten sheets on five by eight ruled paper and includes pages 25-34, identi­ fied on page twenty-five as “IV/ A Riddle.” Boxes 68 and 69 in the Howard-Tilton Library contain nine sheets, five and three-fourths by eight inches of early pencil draft. Add Box 9 also contains a brown leather covered diary with snap fastener which includes notes for .. Dr. Sevier dated from May to December 1881. Theodore L. De Vinne prepared the first printed text for The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, where the novel appeared in serial installments from November 1883 to October 1884. The Century text indicates moderate substantive authorial revision in proof. Monthly installments contain chapters as follows: November, I-VII; December, VIII-XIV; January, XV-XVII; February, XVIII-XXII; March, XXIII-XXVI; April, XXVI- XXX (two chapters numbered XXVI appear due to a printing error); May, XXXI-XXXVI; June, XXVII-XXXIX, and three titled sections lacking numbers; July, XLIII-XLVII; August, XLVIII-LII; September, LIII-LV; October, LVI-LX. Page numbers for the install­ ments and corresponding compositorial stints are found in the final section. The first American edition, published in September 1884 by James R. Osgood (BAL 2339) derives from slightly revised Century sheets and is of secondary textual im­ portance. Advertised in Publisher’s Weekly for October 4, the publisher paid copyright on 2,500, 1,500, 300 and 400 copies for the months of September through December. Though the same plates were in use as late as 1927, the text was copyrighted by Ticknor in 1885 as a result of Osgood’s failure and again in 1887 when the plates were purchased, along with bound stock, unbound stock and sheets for $1,000 by Charles Scribner. The Scribner Archives at Princeton suggest that probably no more than two impressions of 1,000 copies each were made during the author’s lifetime. Although copies with the dates 1887,1889,1891,1892,1893. 1894,1896,1897, 1898,1899,1901, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1924 and 1925 have been located through a census of 450 libraries, examination indicates that in most cases current dates were merely stamped on title pages. The accumulated type batter renders the 1927 copies nearly unreadable. Though Cable wished to have new plates made and several times asked that new editions be issued, the cost of the plates in consideration of the returns from sales proved unrealistic. Collation of the 1884 Osgood edition with the 1927 Scribner edition, together with samples in existing bindings dated 1887 (2), 1898,1901, 1906 and 1911 indicated only slight plate repair. Collation of the two volume paper edition pub­ lished by Scribner in 1887 provided similar results. 6

An English edition published by David Douglas has even less authority.22 Also composed from Century sheets, Douglas issued his text in a small two volume edition late in 1884. Eager to establish British priority since he had no faith in the viability of copyright exchanges, Douglas had his sheets printed as the installments reached him. The sheets were then deposited in ten paper covered installments in the British Museum. He claimed not to have been able to pay the printing costs of 540 copies with the sales, though he followed Dr. Sevier with a volume containing three of Cable’s stories. The English Catalogue of Boo ks lists a London edition published by Hamilton, but no copy has been located. Even a superficial examination of the manuscript which served as printer’s copy will indicate several major changes which were made by the author in proof. But one also notes in collation that over 4,000 accidentals have accumulated in the Century text. Further examination proves the existence of a house style and compositorial preferences. The sheer number of accidentals proves the absence of authorial emendation of punctua­ tion, hyphenation, capitalization, changes in spelling and dialect, and even paragraphing, where over two hundred changes are made. Cable’s punctuation follows an oral story­ teller’s style in many ways. It helped indicate non-verbal forms of expression such as gesture, inflection, speed of delivery, excitement and nervousness. The compositors on the other hand rarely forgot that minor clauses should have commas and major ones semi­ colons, or that commas were to be inserted before “and” in a series. For Cable commas often provided a harness to pace the reader to the situation. His punctuation sometimes reflected aspects of character through speech mannerisms as clearly as through dialect, vocabular and usage. Several complications arose in the text as a result of the mechanical application of schoolbook grammar to the printer’s copy. Cable, for example, used the lower case doctor with reference to Dr. Sevier, except when referred to in speech where it was cap­ italized. The Century text eliminates this distinction. While this change conveys minor if any change in meaning, another related standardization tends to veil part of the central meaning of the text. Throughout the novel Richling tries to maintain the deception that he comes from Milwaukee, while in reality his father is an aristocratic Kentucky planter. Cable conveys this through Richling’s long “O” in place of the conventional exclamation, “Oh.” Thus, the reader is always aware that the landladies and Richling’s business contacts see through his deception. In the Century and of course the Osgood texts the “O” is standardized as “Oh.” In addition to the loss of reader recognition, the loss of precedent of the “O” makes the following passage meaningless:

Printer’s copy: “O yes,—a little.” [Richling’s speech] 7

The doctor marked the southern “O.” There is no o in Milwaukee.” Century: “Oh, yes,—a little.” The Doctor marked the southern “Oh.” There is no “O” in Milwaukee.”

Such obvious complications arising from house style only point to the necessity of carefully exploring the relationship between the printer’s copy and the Century text. Further, it points out the inability or unwillingness on the part of the author to assert his position. Or perhaps it was inattentiveness to the galleys which left the Century text with such awkwardness. Considering the pressures of the platform in addition to his significant literary production during the printing of the Douglas and Osgood editions, it is not sur­ prising that these texts reveal little revision. When Cable mentions having finished the novel except for the monthly proofreading, we must assume that he conscientiously carried the practice through. We do know, how­ ever, that he was not likely to have had a hand in most of the variants found in the Century text. Most of the variants can be attributed to house style and compositorial preference. Such blocks of variants as prequotation punctuation which Cable sometimes em­ ployed to indicate interruption of dialogue, pauses and so on are regularized in the Century and later in the Osgood text, though the houses differed in preference of punctuation to be inserted. The result is often the reduction of the most straightforward sentences to mechanically clumsy monstrosities. Such house practices led Mark Twain to write in out­ rage about the practices of another house, “They don’t pay strict enough attention to my punctuation. Their commas are too handy; I hate commas.”23 While we can never be sure that every aspect of the text is the author’s final interest, we can eliminate obvious as well as many subtle variations from his practice. The word intent becomes important here because we know that many other factors come into play in the evolution of the novel from idea through the process of creation before it reaches the public. The range and shadings of motives and emotions involved in particualr author­ ial preferences is infinite. It is impossible to virtually eliminate every shred of doubt about some variants, but the application of modern textual analysis and considerable experience with Cable’s work can reduce textual corruption to a fraction of that in existing texts. 8

FOOTNOTES

’Edward L. Burlingame to Cable, 14 February, 1881.

2 A copy of the contract appears in Als to Osgood, 8 April 1882.

3 Arlin Turner, George W. Cable: A Biography (Durham: Duke University Press, 1956) 39-44.

4 See Turner, “George W. Cable’s Beginnings as a Reformer,” Journal of Southern History, XVII (May, 1951) 136-161; and “George W. Cable, Novelist and Reformer,” South Atlantic Quarterly, XLVIII (Oct. 1949).

5 The American Novel and Its Tradition (Garden City: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957) 167-176.

6Turner, George W. Cable, 163.

’Turner, George W. Cable, 164.

8 Als to Louise Cable, 22 June 1881.

’Robert Underwood Johnson to Cable, 2 August 1882.

10 Als to Louise, 11 October 1882.

11 Richard Watson Gilder to Cable, 8 June 1883.

12Gilder to Cable, 18 June 1883.

13 In the rejected sheets Mary is presented as being more saintly and righteous and Sevier more religious. On one rejected page Mary asks Dr. Sevier, “What is the only idea that goes into life without a remainder?” to which Dr. Sevier replies, “it’s to smite Satan hip and thigh wherever found!” Gilder wrote in the margin, “likes my funny-bone—this conundrum” (P. 34, University of Virginia sheets.)

14 A series of letters from Cable to his wife indicate that the primary orientation at this point may have been toward writing a social gospel novel. In a New Year’s Eve letter in 1884 he wrote, “I think I have done the best thing I could for everybody in taking this reading tour and so enlarging my circle of readers and giving me a fame which I hope to make profitable as a teacher of truth and religion. But I think I shall not go on the plat­ form often after this year, after this tour is finished. I don’t think I shall be wanted by the public with sufficient desire to justify a tour.”

15Gilder to Cable, 6 August 1883; Johnson to Cable, 7 August 1883. 9

16 Johnson mentions this in a letter to Cable, 22 August 1883.

17Johnson to Cable, 22 August 1883.

18Als to Louise, 6 October 1883.

19Als to Louise, 17 October 1883.

20 See Guy Cardwell, Twins of Genius (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1953).

21 Johnson to Cable, 11 June 1884; see also Johnson to Cable, 26 May 1884.

22 See David Douglas to Cable, 26 November 1884 concerning variants transmitted from the Century texts.

23Twain to Chatto and Windus> 22 July 1897; quoted from CEAA Newsletter, No. 3 (June 1970). 10

EDITORIAL EMENDATIONS TO THE COPY-TEXT

The following emendations are those not discussed in the Textual Introduction. Pages are keyed to the printer’s copy manuscript (MS), with variant readings from the Century Text (A) and the first Osgood edition (B). When a variant consists of words which do not appear in one or more of the texts, no symbol for that text appears. The symbol ( ) indicates that the variant is punctuation. Absence of punctuation is indicated by a caret ( A ).

2.17 not] AB; net MS 12.14 besides] AB; beside MS 12.17- 18 omitted] AB; It was to this person that he called. MS 13.15 distinct] AB; distinctly MS 13.20 resumed] AB; resusmed MS 16.21 physician] AB; doctor MS 20.9-10 omitted] B; But it is needless to be minute. MS A 21.3 young man] AB; husband MS 21.7 understood] AB; Knew MS 26.17 were] AB; omitted MS 29.4 corner] AB; corners MS 30.12 omitted] AB; blue, truthful MS 30.17 this that] AB; that that MS 31.1 into his face] AB; from MS 31.1-2 finger] AB; finger into his face MS 30.5 down] B; omitted MS A 31.17- 18 omitted] AB; Here was one of those women that wifehood completely absorbs. MS 32.11 she, gravely] AB; she. MS 34.3-4 by speech a regard or affection] AB; a regard or affection by speech MS 36.2 pleasantly,] AB; head with a smile MS 39.7 find] AB; 45.5 Finding prices] AB; prices were MS 45.6 they] AB; and they had MS 46.9 there] AB; here MS 46.9 inquiring] AB; inqurmg MS: 49.18 they went] AB; went MS 53.7 and] AB; an MS 53.16 measure,] AB; measurement of duration MS 54.9 above. Beyond these doors showing through them] B; . x'v'/vz , /\ A; x\Z , and showing, beyond, MS 11

54.10 price] AB; prico MS 57.10 mSlee] AB; melee MS 57.17 fulfilled] AB; filfilled MS 60.18 swathed] B; rubbed MS A 64.13 as] B;z\Z, his MS A 66.13-14 the omnibuses] B; an omnibus MS A 68.3 hiding] B; hid MS A 68.5 tiny] B; little MS A 71.19 word now] B; word MS A 73.21 that] AB; the MS 75.11 Sam.] AB; /\ MS 76.21 Milwaukee] AB; the natal omitted] MS 78.4-5 he] AB; the physician MS 78.10 home] AB; residence MS 80.14 the other] AB; another MS 81.7 all?] AB; . MS 83.9 it’s] AB; its MS 96.5 half settled] ; half settle MS; x-^z - /vz AB 96.9 with her] AB; z'X/, he MS 97.2 asked.] AB; MS 98.10 forward] AB; back MS 98.11 left rear] AB; farthest MS 98.12 right] AB; nearer MS 100.12 “into] AB; zxZ MS 107.14 had melted away] AB; was gone MS 109.7 husband.] AB; MS 112.9-10 omitted] AB; Did it save him? MS 123.2 too] AB; to MS 133.16 omitted] B; gentle MS A 133.21 and its so-called nurses are] AB; is MS 139.10 Its] AB; It’s MS 145.19 your] AB; you MS 145.21 your] AB; you MS 145.21 Richling.”]; >AMS; x"KZ ?» AB 149.6 quickly] AB; omitted MS 149.14 put on his hat,] AB; omitted MS 153.6 then took] AB; had there upon taken MS 154.18 conviction] AB; persuasion MS 155.2 do’,”] AB; zv ’,aMS 155.6 delicate repartee] AB; repartee MS 12

155.19 fur] AB; for MS 156.3 with ] AB; to pass in with MS 157.20 omitted] AB; or Gravier MS 159.1 resplendent] AB; replendent MS 160.4 only as] AB; as MS 160.12 “I’m nothing much, but you’ll] AB; “You’ll MS 160.13 skin was dark, his hair almost black, his eyebrows strong. In his mild black eyes you could see the whole Mediterranean. His] AB; omitted MS 160.14 But under all the rough garb and careless, laughing manner was visibly written again and again the name of the race that once held the world under it feet.] AB; omitted MS 161.5 Richling] AB; exclaimed Richling. He MS 161.12 laughing] AB; laughlingly MS 161.17 Thereupon Richling laughed] AB; Richling laughed again MS 162.14 laughed again] AB; laughed MS 165.7 place] AB; establishment MS 165.7 which appeared small and slovenly] AB; a small, slovenly affair MS 167.17 evenin’] B; af’noon MS; aft’noon A 170.6 hurried] AB; got MS 170.17 unreasonably] Ab; unreasably MS 172.21 said,] AB; ''"'-'a suddenly MS 179.9 I] AB; I I MS 180 & 181.21 here?’’] AB; V' MS 184.12 sear]; hard and sear MS; sere AB 186.6 I’ve] AB; I have MS 188.15 thought] AB; fancied MS 188.17 recalled] AB; thought of MS 192.3 omitted] AB;,that broken man MS 192.5 omitted] AB; and with no power any more to smite anything that God had made MS 193.6 jig-sawed] AB; bowlegged MS 194.9 stood, this time,] AB; MS 197.3 gift.”] AB; ZMS 201.5 course,”] AB; ,^MS 201.8 omitted] B; it MS A 206.17 face.] AB; —'a MS 207 & 8.4 Mary.] AB; zxz , pointing to the money still outheld in the doctor’s fingers. MS 207 & 8.6 you] AB; he MS 13

209.13 homeward] AB; homward MS 210.18 hair.] AB; MS 213.15 wuz] AB; was MS 217 & 18.13 egspenze] AB; egpenze MS 219.9 couldn’t] AB; couln’t MS 219.10 omitted] AB; But Narcisse kept his course. MS 223.12 him out] AB; out MS 225.1 The arrangement for Dr. Sevier to place the loan of fifty dollars on his own books at Richling’s credit naturally brough Nar­ cisse into relation with it.] AB; omitted MS 225.14 omitted] AB; if Narcisse was not th'edfu^bajid.of that fifty dollars he must be a,t least its1priestaticfhave’thfe priest’s portion.MS 225.14 Richlings’] AB; Richling’s; MS 227 & 28.16 fact-] AB; zx>A .” - MS 227 & 28.18 sir; but, still, if-”] AB; sir.” MS 227 & 18.19 “No, and] AB; “ No ,” said that creole, “ And MS 230.9 to] AB; too MS 231.5 in my life] AB; omitted MS 232.2 omitted] AB; In Mrs. Riley’s admiring view her two young ten­ ants were daily holding themselves up to perfection’s point.— Were they ?—Who ever yet was equal to the estimate of his friends? MS 232.5 omitted] AB; “O wad pow’r the giftie gie us. MS 232.6 omitted] AB; To Be-oursels—as others see us!” MS 232.17 for lifting] AB; trying to lift MS 233.12 can,”] AB; ,AMS 234.1 he] AB; omitted MS 234.5-236.3 omitted] AB; “Trust!” he murmured as he walked, chafed by the slight harshness of his own last word to Mary. “Don’t I pray? Don’t I pray for what I know is best for me? And don’t I look for answers in the way I know is best for Me? And don’t I look for answers in the way I know they ought to come?” He was not conscious of rebellion. He felt tender and tremulous. But he was profoundly of the belief that there was an oversight somewhere and that it was not his; that as for him he had fulfilled all the requisites of an ac­ ceptable petitioner before the divine throne. In his agony of mind he was gathering all the Promises into a bunch and brandishing them. Shall we go into the private experiences of this man’s soul. For his sake, no. Yet if there be one who needs that experience for his own good, let him read on; if not, then turn the page un-//-read, and may either act be pros­ pered. 14

“I have asked,” lie said again, turning a lonely corner. “I have sought—I have knocked. I have said “Thy will be done’, again and again!” —He deed not see that once was enought if only he had stopped there.—“I have asked believing!”—And so he had; but believing in the correctness of his prayer and the eminent propriety of its being answered.—“How could he be mistaken? Had he not asked for wisdom ‘nothing doubt­ ing’? Why—! he had thrown away all doubt purposely to push this petition through. And where was the response ? Unconscious of rebellion? Yes. Yet Richling had fallen into that state of mind—of heart—though still unconscious of it, wherein he was ready to demand that the Hearer of prayer show cause why he had not come up to the insulated letter of the promise according to the petitioner’s reading of them. Nay, he had got farther away than this. He had mentally filed his exceptions and had given the Almighty a limit of time beyond which, if still unanswered, he would cast away the doctrine of prayer.—“For what prayer could any one ever be certain of”—yes, his confidence was lodged in the prayer instead of in the Prayer-hearer—” what prayer could one ever be certain of if not in this,—that Mary’s troubles, her distresses of mind, and her daily hardships, might cease, and that he, who sought daily to walk by faith, not sight, and could do it easily if 'twere not so dark,—that he for whose sake she had suffered all things and still suffered,—might bear any pain and misery except the agony of seeing her in want; and that she might have happiness and comfort, such as he had promised her the day she first laid her hand in his? MS 240.2 creditor-] AB; or the MS 240.10 besides,”] AB; /~kz , MS 242.17 impending] AB; impendent MS 246.5 “find] AB; A MS 248.13 breathe] AB; breath MS 248.14 so,] AB; z^z ,” MS 249.4 “Oh] AB; A MS 25016.19 whatever] AB; omitted MS 25216.7 continued:] AB; continuedAMS 253.16 “I] AB; A MS 257.10 They] AB; The MS 260.6 softly] B: omitted MS A 262.17 omitted] AB; “He hasn’t got his money back yet.” MS 263.3-8 omitted] AB; Among other defects in his manner of seeking em­ ployment was the fact that he did not—could not—haunt people. Worst of all, he knew that fault, and could not, or thought he could not correct it. There was no chance for him to stumble on the discovery and profit by it. He had made 15

the discovery already. MS 263.17 you] AB; omitted MS 264.8-10 omitted] AB; She called him sweet names and they left the the table. Presently she gave him his hat. MS 265.21 said Richling] AB; he said MS 269.17 ‘You] AB; “ MS 269.17 do’] AB; /V ” MS 269.18 again.] AB; MS 270.20 you] AB; yo MS 271.4 and] AB; & MS 277.12 And this explains what the watchman in Marais street could not understand—why Mary Richling’s window shone all long.] AB; “Oh! John, John! Why don’t John come home?” MS 278.17 A few tardy visitors] AB; A tardy visitor or two MS 279.13 are] AB; if MS 285.15 omitted] AB; Why must you suffer? MS 287.1-2 without a word or note of distress] B; moaning as he went, “O my wife my wife! O Mary, my wife! my wife!” MS A 287.20 him] AB; omitted MS 290.16 Strength,] AB; MS 295.18 in the city somewhere,] AB 298.11 louder] AB; loud MS 300.12 a few] AB; omitted MS 300.16 In] AB; “In” MS 302.11 judgment] AB; judgement Ms 302.14 with John and Mary in it,] AB; and MS 304.5 omitted] AB; a new, MS 305.6 evening,”] AB; MS 305.16 omitted] AB;—and you never disputed it— MS 305.17 woman—and you never disputed it.”] AB; woman.” MS 306.1 Riley,”] AB; /V ,A MS 307.1 Its] AB; their MS 307.19 myriad] AB; omitted MS 311.1 Yes] AB; “ XX-X , MS 311.1 Richlings’] AB; Richling’s MS 314.4 he] AB; her MS 317.21 him.] AB; z'"X-X/A MS 323.13 as] AB; at MS 327.15 him] AB; omitted MS 337.5 easier] AB; easy MS 16

337.10 too,] AB; is MS 337.10 omitted] AB; another thing MS 339.12 time] AB; it MS 342.14 he] AB; his MS 348.2 The brother-in-law of sister Jane—he whom Dr. Sevier met at that quiet dinner party—] AB; sister Jane’s brother-in-law MS 349.2 if] AB; omitted MS 354.18 omitted] AB; feel that they MS 354.19 must.”] AB; /“X-X* omitted MS 355.10 responded the doctor, turning solemnly toward his young friend.] solemnly responded the doctor MS: Doctor . . .AB 358.20 we’re] AB; with MS 361.9 somehow,] AB; omitted MS 364.2 the rest of] AB; omitted MS 364.21 omitted] AB; that MS 366.6 even] AB; omitted MS 368.17 the] AB; omitted MS 374.10 “You like to part with your hard earnings, do you, Richling?”] AB; omitted MS 375 & 376.19 this] AB; the MS 379.5 Why] AB; “Why MS 379.6 omitted] AB; She couldn’t look me in the face.” MS 380.2 Bakery] AB; bakery MS 382.10-21 omitted] AB; A preacher far away in Milwaukee, said one day to the prettiest little mother in his flock, that he was sure she would testify to the power of prayer. She replied—as she wrote to her husband— “I believe in the duty of prayer, the wisdom and faithfulness of God, and the reward of faith.” “Well, that will answer,” said the preacher. “It has answered,” said Richling as Dr. Sevier handed him back the letter. Was it for unbelief that the doctor made no reply? Probably not. The looked after the departing hus­ band and sighed. Why was it. MS 396.16 “Yes] AB; A MS 393.2 sanitation] AB; saitation MS 393.3 I preach well enough, I think, but in practice] AB; he cast his eyes upward and shook his head—” how MS 395.11 Oh for some one always to understand—never to fear—] AB; Only Mary Richling always understood—never feared—MS 398.5 yendlemans] AB; Yendlemans MS 17

398.17 went on] AB; spoke MS 400.14 udt, udt] AB; udt MS 406.12 “I’ll do it, seh! And, Mr. Bisson, you muzn’ think anything about that, my not hawing that five dollars fum you, Mr. Bison, because that don’t make a bit o’ dif’ence; an’ thass one thing I like about you, Mr. Bison, you don’t baw up’ money to eve’y Dick, Sain,an’ Hawwy, do you?” “No, I tdtoandt. Ower, you yoost vait—”] AB; 407.8 Tseweer!:] AB; MS 410.15 its] AB; it’s MS 412.1 ago. Why] AB; x''~za. why MS 413.7 “Excellent pastime,”] AB; “And not too much of that, either,” MS 413.9 As to] AB; After MS 414.13 The doctor gave her such good advice as became a courageous physician.] “Very well, but will you do it at once?” “Yass. you tcllin’ me, I do it.” “Well, then, the chances are three out of four that Reisen. will recover.” She clasped her hands. Oh Doctor! I just knowed you kin doit!” Her red face beamed. “I shall not do it.” said the doctor. Her countenance fell. “But it will be done, I hope, by those in whose care we shall place him.” MS; .... Doctor . . . AB 415.2-3 omitted] AB; “I understand you werry well. But MS 415.8-10 omitted] AB; “Why, madam, that’s all foolishness. The place I am talking about is no crazy-house; it’s a beautiful home, where everything’— MS 415.12 from the Doctor’s kind attempts to explain,] AB; omitted MS 416.2 with unusual tenderness of tone, and] AB; omitted MS 416.3-7 omitted] AB; It’s useless to talk. You’ll make the common mistake—delay twelve months or so and run his chances of recovery down to one in five. Sentimental slackhandedness, my good woman, —that’s the secret of most of the uncured insanity.” MS 416.10-16 omitted] AB; “Well, madam, he’ll be pitiable indeed if you con­ sult your feelings instead of your physician. It’s certainly dangerous and may prove fatal.” “Oh! now, Doctor,” said Mrs. Reisen looking up suddenly through her tears, “you can’t never make me believe that Reisen is goin’ to hurt anybody. Tain’t not one bit o’ use to lock him up. I’ll take that resk, everytime! I’ll take the resk.’ MS 416.18 I’m afraid] AB; “that may do for you, but MS 18

416.21 “Mr.] AB; Mr. MS 421.11 omitted] AB; for silence MS 421.12 “Stop] AB; Stop MS 424.17 depends] AB; depend 424.15 still!’”] AB; A ” MS 426.7 I promised you I’d go and] AB; you wanted me to MS 428.6 Richling’s earnest request] AB; his professional efforts MS 428.10 “Easy little tasks you cut out for your friends,” said the rector to Richling when next they met. “I got preached to—not to say edified. I’ll share my edification with you.” He told his experience.] AB; omitted MS 428.11 the prison apartment] AB; omitted MS 429.11 much] AB; omitted MS 440.2 it’s] AB; its MS 442.8 asked:] AB; told Richling a little secret. MS 442.14 “Well,—oh, pshaw! I could tell you something funny, but I don’t care to do it.”] AB; omitted MS 442.15 what he did not care to tell was that she had promised] AB; “She promised MS 442.15 him] AB; me MS 442.15 before to be his] AB; ago to be my MS 442.16 he] AB; I MS 442.17 he] AB; I MS 442.17 have ended his] AB; end my MS 442.18-19 but he was not seeking his own happiness.] B; I don’t boast of; —only you seemed to think I didn’t know much about it, you know.” MS. 443.14 omitted] AB; in the/mission school MS 444.8 He was glad he had not told Richling all his little secret. But Richling found it out later from Dr. Sevier.] AB; omitted MS 446.4 a little while] AB; a moment MS 447.14 it] AB; is MS 447.20 peculiarly.] AB; peculiarly; the whole history of his great and terrible nation seemed to come out in it. MS 449.21 Well,] AB; “ , MS 451.17 he] AB; He MS 457.5 It is] AB; Is it MS 457.17 as] AB; a MS 459.18 ’Itchlin’.”] AB; Itchlin. MS 460.2 its] AB; it’s MS 460.3 Its] AB; It’s MS 19

462.6 friends] AB; omitted MS 462.17 Richling from behind,] AB;omitted MS 463.2 The detective] B; he AB 463.6 laid a hand upon the rescued stranger and] AB; omitted MS 463.8 go.”] AB; xx> .aMS 462.2 right,”] AB; z\^Z, A MS 465.19 present] AB; omitted MS 467.7 around again next year,] AB; again MS 467.16 Narcissc’s] AB; his MS 470.2 omitted] AB; black guards MS 472.14 you] AB; omitted MS 474.9 weary and red] AB; red weary MS; 475.1 The summer] AB; It was the summer that MS 477.11 omitted] AB; little MS 478.7 omitted] AB; real MS 479.17 Nobody can tell] AB; There’s no telling MS 481.13 months’] AB; z\zz4 MS 481.20 years’] AB; MS 482.1 take weeks] AB; be useless MS 482.16 And so] AB; So, MS 482.16-21 omitted] AB; And the only question left was how to keep one’s feet sedately on the sober earth until bosom should rush into bosom, the (merry) scrutiny of a father’s eyes meet the impas­ sive wonder of the tossed child, and husband and wife, still lover and sweetheart as of old, laugh and kiss again at the irrevelant first communication of the little one’s recovered utterance. MS 488.13 He was ill-prepared for] AB; Night, storm, darkness, combined as you will, amount to little compared with MS 491.16 to] AB; 491.20 omitted] AB; generous MS 493.17 omitted] AB; all, MS 494.7 war?’] AB; z*x-Z ?AMS 494.19 off,] AB; . MS 497.18 “Again, again, the pealing drum,] AB; “I see them on their winding way. MS 497.19 The clashing horn, they come, they come,] AB; Around their ranks the moonbeams play. MS 497.20 And] AB; Their MS 497.21 their notes] AB; the notes MS 500.2 me] AB; my MS 20

501.20 Snatch the kisses! snatch them!] AB; Kisses!—Kisses!— Snatch them! Snatch MS 501.21 off, huzza—] AB; off—MS 502.1 off! ] AB; off! - Wave! - Wave! MS 503.6 Farewell,] AB; “Farewell, MS 503.16 potatoes, what not;] AB; ;MS 504.1 blood—] AB; some— MS 506.21 red] AB; fat MS 507.1 fat] AB; red MS 508.3 moment’s] AB; moments MS 509.10 alone,”] AB; alone,^MS 518.13 omitted] AB; who, MS 520.11 turning] AB; turned MS 521.21 madam.”] AB; madam .^MS 532.15 sense.”] AB; sense. MS 527.14 there?”] AB; there? MS 529.18 back] AB; backward MS 530.6 before] AB; omitted MS 531.17 has been just] AB ¡just MS 531.21 you] AB; omitted MS 534.18 “You’ll see,” replied Mary, almost in soliloquy.] AB; omitted MS 535.12 left] AB; right MS 535.13 right] AB; left MS 538.12 a] AB; or MS 538.15 “Heigh-h-h] AB; heigh-h-h MS 539.13 eyes.] ABjeyes^MS 540.13 raised] AB; raise MS 541.12 sort o’smell] AB; sort smell MS 544.2 smoothing] AB; smoother MS 545.2 ’a’ run] AB; of run MS 545.3 great oak.] AB; large oak. MS 545.8 smaller] AB; lesser MS 549.10 child, AB; babe, MS 549.14 “O] AB; “Oh MS 553.15 mighty] AB; my MS 554.8 hurryn’ along with] B; takin’ MS A 555.13 horses’] AB; horses MS 557.11 responded] AB; respond MS 557.18 “Same,] AB; “Come, Sam; MS 21

560.11 The little young feller] AB; The one MS 563.13 “I] AB;aI MS 564.13 unreasonable,] AB; unreasonable. MS 567.3 “Dayncin’.”] AB; “Dayncin^MS 567.3-6 and sent her emphasis out of the window in liquid form with­ out disturbing her intervening companion.] AB; To empha­ size her disrelish she essayed to squirt her spittle out of the window as her companion had so skillfully done, but the glass, unnoticed, was in the way and stopped it in mid course. MS 567.21 got,” AB; with her,” MS 568.19 two ladies] AB; ladies of uneven ages MS 569.1 off] AB; of MS 571.3 victim.] AB; in all stages of decay. MS 571.6 off a] AB; of a MS 579.14 oh, oh,] AB; O MS 580.10 omitted] AB; horse MS 583.9 may AB; MS 585.18 a runaway.] AB; a mere runaway. MS 589.18 “But] AB; But MS 591.2 his entire shapeless and nearly helpless form] AB; the single un­ broken surface of cottonade-covered fat that reached from his chin to his knees MS 591.4 omitted] AB; contrary MS 591.13 bright open of a marsh, and,] AB; sunlight of a pale wet prairie, and MS 593.3 omitted] AB; goin’ MS 594.13 posted] AB; omitted MS 595.9 shot] AB; smitten MS 595.16 Lake] AB; the lake MS 595.20 omitted] AB; of MS 597.18 and] AB; an MS 600.15 toy with] AB; elongation of her mother’s visual organ with MS 606.13 but—lately—only just here, very lately, I’ve learned to call the meekest, lovingest One that ever trod our earth, Master; and it’s been your life, my dear fellow, that has taught me.”] AB; but—it’s been your life, my dear fellow, that has brought me— to Christ’s feet.” MS 607.1 are] AB; omitted MS 612.15 anywhere near] AB; omitted MS 612.16 “Doctor^] AB; “Doctor,” MS 22

612.19 omitted] AB; use MS 613.2 Pilgrim’?”] AB; pilgrin^?” MS 613.6 all right,” whispered Richling. He lay with closed eyes for a moment, and then, as he opened them, breathed faintly . through his parted lips the words, spoken, not sung, while his hand feebly beat the imagined cadence:] AB; there’s one thing you may know. I wish I could hear—ever so little of it.” “What is it Johnnie—boy? Even if I can’t sing it I’ll try to say it for you—a verse, anyhow.” “It’s ‘My old Kentucky Home,’ said Richling. With quivering mouth and tears stealing down his face the doctor said, slowly,] AB Richling beating the imagined cadence feebly with his hand,— MS 613.18 omitted] AB; Weep no more, my ladies;—It’s— it’s no use— I can’t say it, Richling.” MS 614.3 thing—”] AB; thing more.” MS 614.7 you’ll be] AB; will you be MS 614.8 The Doctor nodded; his eyes were full.] AB; “To my last crust, Richling, and my last breath. MS 614.13 To-morrow at daybreak,—it will be just at daybreak,—when you see that I’ve passed,] AB; TomQfrow at daybreaik; I’m going, Doctor. MS 614.13 omittedAB; when I am dead MS 614.14 omitted] AB; just MS 615.6 a throwing wide of arms,] AB; omitted MS 616.3 omitted] AB; and MS 618.15 she] AB; he MS 618.20 severe] AB; omitted MS 619.21 my] AB; the MS 621.8 “Having] AB; “ ‘Having MS 622.16 “You were not so badly mistaken. I wasn’t satisfied, but I was about to surrender.” She smiled at herself and her warlike figure of speech.] AB; He looked away, passed his hand across his forehead and must have muttered audibly his self re­ proach; for Mary looked up again with a faint gleam of the old radience in her face, saying,— MS 622.20 He looked away, passed his hand across his forehead, and must have muttered audibly his self-reproach; for Mary looked up again with a faint gleam of the old radiance in her face, say­ ing:] AB; “No.” She shook her head. “You were not so badly mistaken. I wasn’t satisfied, but I was about to sur­ render.” She smiled at herself and her warlike figure of 23

speech. MS 623.2 omitted] AB; He looked away, passed his hand across his fore­ head, and must have muttered some word of self-reproach, for Mary raised her eyes again and said,— MS 624.2 omitted] AB; austere MS 624.20 suggest.] AB; propose. MS 625.13 not be] AB; be not MS 625.21 as one should if one’s] AB; that they ought to have if MS 626.14 whenever] AB; if MS 625.14 omitted] AB; ever MS 630.14 was] AB; omitted MS 631.1-3 and all were silent while he looked long upon the face] AB; “I’d never take this off, Mary, if I were you.” “No,” re­ sponded the gentle mourner, with a ring of determination in the soft tone. MS 631.4 By and by] AB; The Doctor MS 632 LIX “Yet Shall He Live”] AB; LVII Afterglow MS 634.1 omitted] AB; he asked MS 636.13 it was that one of his two gay young nieces] AB; that was just MS 636.14 followed in just behind, and was presently saying, with the prettiest heartiness, that Dr. Sevier looked no older than the day they met the Florida general at dinner years before. She] AB; The banker’s wife MS 636 this] AB; omitted MS 637.5 omitted] AB; and MS 637.6 builder and made] AB; Builder; she made MS 637.9 It happened that the company was almost the same as that which had sat down in brighter days to that dinner which the banker’s wife recalled with so much pleasure. She and her husband and son were guests; also that Sister Jane, of whom they had talked, a woman of real goodness and rather unre­ lieved sweetness; also her sister and bankrupted brother-in- law. The brother-in-law] AB; The banker and his wife and some were guests. Also Sister Jane a woman of real goodness and rather unrelieved sweetness. Also her sister and brother- in-law. He MS 638.17 thos] AB; them MS 638.18 there was glad, tearful kissing] AB; Ups feasted upon lips MS 638.19 silent] AB; thirsty MS 638.21 So does his aunt.] AB; omitted MS 641.6 much] AB; great MS 641.17 Sevier’s] AB; Sevier MS 24

641.19 chair that remained, unused, against the wall.] AB; chair. MS 641.19 and Alice was an almost daily Visitor.] AB; omitted MS 642.5 often] AB; omitted MS 642.11 Alice had just left the room] AB; omitted MS 642.12 the child’s-”] AB; ”- MS 642.12 in undertone] AB; omitted MS 642.13 to make us] AB; in order for us to MS 642.14 “He] AB; “Why, he MS 642.14 murmured the smiling] AB; softly replied the MS 642.15 why shouldn’t he tell] AB; he ought to tell MS 642.16 “My dear!” objected the wife, very softly and prettily. “I don’t mean to speak lightly,” responded the husband, “but—they] AB; “He’s afraid,” whispered Laura. “Do you think he has reason to be so?” I could not help but ask. “Yes, I must say I do. I doubt if she can ever persuade herself—but of course I don’t know, and have no right to say.” “I don’t see why they shouldn’t—said the rector; “why should they live in the grave?” Laura interrupted. “You shouldn’t say it that way, my dear; it does not sound pleasant.” “Well I don’t want to say anything unpleasant, certainly I’d like to say something extremely agreeable about two such lives, and they could easily make it possible. They certainly MS 643.9 they don’t feel their disparity of years;] AB; omitted MS 643.11 I don’t see why—] AB; omitted MS 643.12 Laura shook her head, smiling in the gentle way that only the happy wives of good men have.] It will never be.” What changes! “The years creep slowly by—” We seem to hear the old song yet. What changes! Laura has put two more leaves into her dining-table. Her children fill three seats. Alice has another. It is she, now, notAchair, that is tall—and fair. Mary, too, has a seat at the same board. This is their home now. Her hair is turning all to silver. So early? Yes; but she is—she never was—so beautiful! They all see it—feel it; Dr. Sevier—the gentle, kind, straight old Doctor —most of all. And oh! when they two, who have never joined hands on this earth, go to meet John and Alice,— which God grant may be at one and the same time,—what weeping there will be among God’s poor!] AB; “Ah! said Laura, “there it is. They have only a broken heart to give each other. That is what makes uncle Sevier afraid, I think. He’d like to offer something better.” 25

“He can’t,” said the little rector, with sudden solemnity. “Nobody can. A heart broken the right way—it isn’t the gladest and gayest, but it’s the loveliest, holiest thing on earth.” “Since you say that,” said Laura, “I’ve a good mind to tell you both a secret.” We asked her to do so, and she leaned forward over the table and said, softly,— “He’s gone there this evening. He’s there now. He was talk­ ing with me about it only an hour or two ago. And I told him”—a tear came in her eye, and she smiled and bit her lip,—“I told him he ought to go and make the offer. And he’s gone.” The little rector closed his fist and laid it upon the table warmly, saying,— “I wish him success!” And, Reader, I don’t know how you may look at the matter, but—I couldn’t help it.— I think it was right—my whole heart spoke, and I said,— “So do I.” MS 26

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54a.35 re-weighers] MS; reweighers AB 54a.38 But] MS; omitted AB 54a.39 pay] MS; ay AB 55a.9 wanted to retort] MS; retorted AB 55a.22 used to] MS; would AB 55b.6 had never] MS; would never have AB 55b.55 but] MS; and AB 55b.4O eye] MS; eyes AB 56b.16 a note] MS; a promissory note-AB 57b.35-36 this people] MS; this half-caste people AB 58a.27 Yet] MS; Yet A; But B 58b.34 “-walk”,] MS; “walk,” AB 59a.38 man and womankind] MS; mankind and womankind AB 59a.58-59 “Well-?”-] MS; “Well”- AB 60b.11 it] MS; me AB 60b.15 slipper’s] MS; slippers’AB 60b.22 exclaimed, very prettily,—] MS; ,—AB 60b.44 as far] MS; so AB 62a.53 omitied] MS; he said, AB 63a.4 barege] MS; barege AB 63a.33 found—work MS; AB 64a.34 hyeh] MS; yeh AB 64a.n omitted] MS; *“Heah”—ye, as in yearn A;1 “Yeh”—ye as in yearn. B 65b.27 round] MS; around AB 66b.13 omitted] MS; it B 66b.20 again] MS; AB 237b.28-29 thence,] MS; there AB 238b.2-3 colder] MS; more coldly AB 240a.5 jutting] MS; that jut AB 240a.8 An] MS; A AB 240a.35 lie] MS; be AB 240b.3-4 face.] MS; face as he uttered the latter clause. AB 240b.20-21 as] MS; so AB 240b.60-61 it] MS; the receipted bill AB 241a.ll mawnins] MS; mawnin’s AB 242a.60 omitted] MS; alone AB 27

243a.12 off?] MS; ! AB 243a.53 only] MS; merely AB 243a.55 great] MS; good AB 243b.49 set] MS; placed AB 244a.4 half settle] MS; half-settled AB 244a.l0 he] MS; her AB 244a.ll heliotropes.] MS; Flowers. AB 244a.19 said,—] MS; replied: AB 244b.31 omitted] MS; and AB 244b.61 don’t] MS; doesn’t AB 245a.9 Naides] MS;Naids AB 245a.32 there] MS; there AB 245a.41 masses] MS; mass AB 246b.14 the] MS; her AB 248a.9 things, that] MS; . It AB 248a.14 omitted] MS; the A; a B 248a.20 omitted] MS;she AB 248a.28 specially] MS; especially AB 248a.40 then] MS; AB 248b.22 Mention may be made here of a neighbor] MS; There was another neighbor AB 248b.38 of] MS; omitted AB 248b.46 birds’nest] MS; bird’snest A; bird’s nest B 249a.2 up] MSA; omitted B 249a.21 omitted] MS; in A; on B 249a.25 “Nn-o-] MS; “No, no- AB 249a.27 omitted] MS; a AB 249a.33 no,”] MS; omitted AB 250a.32 tone] MS; voice AB 422a.l0-ll and cholera] MS; or cholera, AB 422a.l3 Paddies and Gretchens] MS; Irish and Germans AB 422a.l3 in] MS; omitted AB 422a.l5 omitted] MS; the AB 422a.3O New Orleans] MS; omitted AB 422a.37-38 ap-portioned for woman’s troubles.] MS; set aside for women. AB 422a.39 omitted] MS; last AB 422b.15 omitted] MS; out AB 422b.20 omitted] MS; unusual AB 28

422b.22 out] MS; omitted AB 422b.23 partially ] MS; partly AB 422b.30 omitted] MS; young AB 422a.37 till] MS A; until B 423a.15 the] MS; omitted A; a B 423a.23 omitted] MS; of AB 423b.8 omitted] MS; paused A; pause B 423b.28 or] MS; nor AB 424a.15 cheek] MS; cheeks AB 424a.33 omitted] MS; he AB 424a.35 though] MS; although AB 424b.55 slatterns] MS; slattens AB 425a.2 spray of lingual] MS; lingual AB 426a.2 as] MS; at AB 426a.4 omitted] l^S;andwho AB 426a.29 Then] MS; And then AB 426a.35 themselves] MS; 426b.ll on] MS; at AB 426b.24 do] MS; act AB 426b.58 sparrow] MS; sparrows AB 427a.52 in] MS;omittedAB 427b.3 dmi'ftee/]MS;breaking into English and AB 427b.9 Newa] MS; She newa AB 428b.23 into] MS; in AB 429b.49 “You’ll] MS; “I’m nothing much, but you’ll AB 429b.52 omitted] MS; His skin was dark, his hair almost black, his eye­ brows strong. In his mild black eyes you could see the whole Mediterranean. His dress AB 429b.56 omitted] MS; But under all the rough garb and careless, laugh­ ing manner was visibly written again and again the name of the race that once held the world under its feet. AB 430a.44 his] MS; him AB 430a.59 him] MS; her AB 430b.16 on] MS; at AB 430b.28 omitted] MS; were AB 430b.29 omitted] MS; gracefully AB 430b.53 “Ho!] MS; “Oh! AB 529b.36 confectioners’] MS; confectioner’s AB 529b.41 stories] MS; stories’ AB 529b.48 lives] MS; live AB 29

530b.55 omitted]MS; Assistant A; aaistant B 530b.5 omitted] MS; and AB 530b.21 sidling] MS; sliding AB 530b.43 she sighed] MS; sighed the widow AB 531a.3 was.] MS; were? AB 531a.5 I’ve put a spoke into your wheel.”] MS; I may be able to give you a lift.” AB 531a.29 poststamps] MS; postage-stamps AB 531b.12 in] MS; omitted AB 531b.18 omitted] MS; her AB 531b.61 omitted] MS A; a B 532b.14 you’re]MS; you are AB 532b.50 “Is she—buried] MS; A; “Did you lose her— B 532b.52 still] MS; quiet AB 532b.60 omitted] MS; spirit A; spirits B 533a.49 omitted] MS; emotions AB 533b.32 towards] MS; toward AB 533b.49-50 within, till presently] MS; within. Presently AB 533b.50 drooped] MS; dropped AB 534a.21 omitted] MS; he thought, AB 534a.22 were] MS; was AB 534a.58 hoped] MS; hopes AB 534b.51 omitted] MS; The song caught up the tender name again. AB 534b.52 with] MS; whose AB 534b.52 omitted] MS; was AB 535a.22-23 The speaker] MS; Mrs. Riley AB 535a.3O furgot] MS; forgot AB 538b.36 was] MS; were AB 538b.36 at] MS; to AB 539b.55 lass] MS; last AB 540a.32 nodded] MS; responded AB 540a.47 you] MS; you’ve AB 540b.27 newa] MS; newah AB 541a.61 omitted] MS A; would B 541b.39 pawt.] MS; paw, AB 542a.8 crust] MS; cent AB 753a.27 on] MS; in AB 753b.36 jist] MS; just AB 754a.5 bean] MS; been AB 30

754b.3 omitted] MS A; anyhow B 754b.8 doctor] MS; Doctor’s AB 755a.5 to] MS; his AB 755a.5 of] MS; to AB 755a.6 He hovered, not only in thought but in person, with] MS; Not only in thought, but in person, he hovered with AB 756b.7 know?”] MS; know,” AB 756b.8 Nawcisse.] MS; Narcisse? AB 757a.18 “Hush!”] MS; “Hush” AB 757a.24 omitted] MS; again AB 757a.31 omitted] MS; “he cried” AB 757b.ll omitted] MS; just then AB 757b.21 omitted] MS; around AB 757b.46 an infant] MS; a child AB 758a.21 is] MS; was AB 758a.22 is] MS; was AB 758a.21 lives] MS; lived AB 758a.23 are] MS; were AB 758a.3O omitted] MS; it was AB 758b.18 ill-good-looking] MS; omitted AB 758b.25 was MS; is AB 759a.6 here.”] MS; here?” AB 760a.46 was] MS; were AB 760b.10 somebody] MS; Somebody AB 761a.55 deeper] MS; more deeply AB 762b.34 beside] MS; besides AB 762b.22 strong,] MS; rank, AB 762b.23 omitted] MS; board AB 762b.24 omitted] MS; still AB 762b.25 hasted.] MS; hastened. AB 763a.48 I’m] MS; I am AB 763b.14 omitted] MS; outfitted A; unfitted B 763b.20 pulling] MS; putting AB 763b.23 omitted] MS; away her tear A; her B 763b.38 omitted] MS; would recur A; kept recurring B 764a.27 omitted] MS; were AB 765a.l0 enemies] MS; enemy’s AB 873a.2O fill] MS; fills AB 873a.24 winking] MS; winging AB 31

873b.6 cleared her throat] MS; coughed AB 874a.1 “Can] MS; “May AB 874a.61 omitted] MS; had AB 875b.27 accounts] MS; account AB 875b.35 go!] MS; went! AB 875b.48-49 in] MS; as to AB 875b.58 whose turnkeys] MS; the turnkeys of which AB 876a.17 drunks] MS; “drunks” AB 876a.20 resting- and refreshing-place] MS; resting and refreshing place AB 876b.28 Lay] MS; Lie AB 876b.59 intentionably] MS; intentionally AB 877b.20 omitted] MS; arrested A; arrest B 877b.50 omitted] MS; stations A; station B 879a.31 captain] MS; keeper AB 880a.27 omitted] MS; had AB 880b.54 seed] MS; seeds AB 881b.46 up] MS; upon AB 882a.26 It] MS; They AB 882a.38 omitted] MS; an unreserved confession of trust A; a confession of unreserved trust B 882b.49 more] MS; omitted AB 884b.24 was] MS; were AB 885a.3 couldn’t] MS; could not AB 885b.21 omitted] MS; expedient A; experiment B 70a.40 three] MS; omitted AB 70b.39 It’s] MS; Its AB 70b. 39% be] MS; seem AB 71b.10 wherever] MS; whenever AB 71b.57 and so forth] MS A; etc. B 72b.9 thing] MS; think AB 73b.43 comes] MS; come AB 73b.57 don’t] MS; doesn’t AB 75b.47 again,] MS; omitted AB 76a.49 omitted] MS; not AB 76a.56 Mr.] MS; Mrs. AB 76b.l2 ye] MS; you AB 77a.39 omitted] MS; may AB 78a.26 omitted] MS; AW A; “das aw B 78a.45 there did pass] MS; omitted AB 32

78a.58 plead] MS; pleaded AB 79a.41 It’s your own principles. It’s your own principles!”] MS; It’s your own principles!” AB 87b.59 omitted] MS; for AB 80a.21 Richling,” cried the doctor, “that’s] MS; Richling, that’s AB 80b.27 was] MS; had been AB 81b.3 him] MS; his AB 258a.55 fingers] MS; finger AB 258a.20 Oh] MS; oh AB 259b.13 omitted] MS; before they locked up, AB 261a.9 te verte] MS; vert AB 261b.ll huge) MS; large AB 261b.33 mornings] MS; morning AB 262b.57 omitted] MS; coin’ to run teh A; goin* teh run B 263.23 omitted] MS; of B 263a.28 him] MS;Rusin,AB 264a.28 “Oh!] MS; “O AB 264a.35 ass quick ass] MS; aas quick aas AB 264b.14 omitted] MS; a A; of the B 264b.19 turned] MS; turning AB 264b.37 Was] MS; Were AB 265.28 confession] MS; confessions AB 265a.51 was] MS; were AB 265b.20 squarely] MS; square B 265b.31 omitted] MS; you A; yon B 266b.23 staying] MS; saying AB 266b. 521/2 say, come, to] MS; say come. AB 266b.53 Mary] MS; omitted AB 267a.3O had just stated,] MS; remarked, AB 267b.12 don’t] MS; doesn’t AB 269a.47 omitted] MS;dat AB 267b.49 omitted] MS; I’d go to thim! AB 269a.52 omitted] MS; goin’A; go B 269b.13 was] MS; were AB 420a.23 or] MS; nor AB 420b.27 omitted] MS; them AB 420b.46 it] MS; the eye AB 422a.6 the two men] MS; Richling and Ristofalo AB 33

422a.25 form] MS; omitted AB 422b.19 consideration] MS; opinion AB 423a.21 was] MS; and AB 423b.30 to] MS; at AB 424a.3 glance] MS; glanced AB 424b.42 red and weary] MS; weary and red AB 424b.50 omitted] MS; that AB 424b.58 and] MS; omitted AB 425a.29 squarely] MS; square AB 425b.60 omitted] MS; it, AB 596a.24 omitted] MS; away AB 597a.2 despatched for] MS; telegraphed AB 597a.5 She] MS; Her mother AB 597a.57 arose] MS; rose AB 597b.4 and reached] MS; reaching AB 597b.15 Only that] MS; But AB 600a.2 omitted] MS; street AB 600b.ll muskets] MS; rifles AB 600b.19 had rung] MS; rang AB 602b.29 flesh] MS; flash AB 604b.22 omitted] MS; she AB 605a.41 a] MS; omitted AB 607a.26 that easy] MS; so easily AB 698b.4 omitted] MS; that AB 699a.8 when] MS; where AB 699a.31 before] MS; earlier AB 699a.58 W] MS; W’s AB 700a.28 D’you] MS; Do you AB 700a.45 camps] MS; camp AB 701a.20-21 asked she] MS; she asked AB 702.10 as his] MS; His B 702a.15 back again) MS; back AB 702a.22 woke] MS A; awoke B 702b.45 say] MS A; said B 703b.20 paused] MS; passed AB 705a.43 eighteenth] MS B; 18th A 705b.50 responded] MS; responds AB 706b.28 specially] MS; especially AB 706b.35 asked] MS A; drawled B 34

706b.50 face] MS; omitted AB 708a.4 by] MS; from AB 708a.23-24 He’s in ill-health] MS: A ; His health is bad B 708b.3 I’ll] MS; I AB 708b.25 begun] MS; began AB 709b.22 and] MS; omitted AB 710b.l3 dejection] MS ; dejections AB 710b.39 this] MS; the AB 710b.40 amusement] MS; resentment AB 820b.1 and] MS; omitted AB 821a.5 sprightful ] MS ; sprightly AB 821a.17 —or a] MS; —a AB 822a.2O “And] MS; And AB 822a.59 horse’s head] MS A; horse B 823a.42 sprung] MS A; sprang B 823b.44 omitted] MS; out AB 824a.55 And] MS; Or AB 824b.53 still] MS A; again B 825a.46 “Don’t] MS; “Doesn’t AB 826b.29 infrequent] MS; unfrequent AB 826b.47 resignation smiled] MS; smiled resignation AB 827b.47 I’m] MS; I am AB 829a.30 omitted] MS; up AB 830a.46 go] MS; move AB 831b.32 right—] MS; aright— AB 832a.l3 him] MS A; the rector B 832a.36 sit] MS; sat AB 35

WORD-DIVISION

Word-division includes two sections. The first part includes word-division as practiced in possible forms in the printer’s copy and in the Century. In cases where differences exist in the manuscript for the same word, the most frequent form has been followed. The second part is a list of end line hyphenation or possible hyphenation as it occurs in the man uscript.

Recurring Hyphenation Forms

Separate/Hyphenated

printer’s copy Century

account books account-books apple green apple-green arm chair arm-chair awning post awning-post backward slanting backward-slanting bank note bank-note bass drum bass-drum better kept better-kept big handed big-handed bitter orange trees bitter-orange-trees black and white black-and-white black plumed black-plumed blotting paper blotting-paper boarding house boarding-house bottom lands bottom-lands bread carts bread-carts bread crusts bread-crusts breakfast table breakfast-table breast pocket breast-pocket brick dust brick-dust bringing up bringing-up broad faced broad-faced broad hatted broad-hatted buggy whip buggy-whip bulletin boards bulletin-boards 36

bullet hole bullet-hole button hole ’ button-hole busy looking busy-looking camp fires camp-fires carriage door carriage-door carriage step carriage-step cat boats cat-boats chair back chair-back chair whittler chair-whittler cherry tree cherry-tree cheek bones cheek-bones chimney top chimney-top chuck full chuck-full church yard church-yard clasp knife clasp-knife clean shaven clean-shaven clear cut clear-cut coat collar coat-collar cock feathers cock-feathers collar bone collar-bone corn bread corn-bread cotton float cotton-float counting rooms counting-rooms cruel looking cruel-looking custom house custom-house dark blue dark-blue dark brown dark-brown day laborer day-laborer deposit book deposit-book dinner tables dinner-tables dining room dining-room door sill door-sill down town down-town downward curved downward-curved drawing room drawing-room dress coat dress-coat easy chair easy-chair engine room engine-room ever turning ever-turning yi fair handed fair-handed fellow beings fellow-beings fellow citizens fellow-citizens fellow clerk fellow-clerk fellow martyr fellow-martyr fellow passenger fellow-passenger fence tops fence-tops fig trees fig-trees fìnger ends finger-ends French tongued French-tongued gang plank gang-plank goat beard goat-beard good afternoon good-afternoon good day good-day good evening good-evening good morning good-morning gate post gate-post grape vine grape-vine grate bars grate-bars grey coats grey-coats grey headed grey-headed hand holes hand-holes hanger on hanger-on half articulated half-articulated half closed half-closed half dressed half-dressed half hidden half-hidden half mile half-mile half recognized half-recognized half sister half sister hard used hard-used hard tack hard-tack hat brim hat-brim hand in hand hand-in-hand head coverings head-coverings head quarters head-quarters hearth pan hearth-pan heart rending heart-rending 38

heart throb heart-throb high bred high-bred higher keyed higher-keyed home lands home-lands house dog house-dog humming birds humming-birds ill concealed ill-concealed ill health ill-health ill mounted ill-mounted ill smelling ill-smelling ill wishes ill-wishes index finger : index-firigep' iron grey iron-grey keen eyed keen-eyed king fisher king-fisher left handed left-handed light hearted light-hearted little forecasting little-forecasting lodging place lodging-place long dreaded long-dreaded long reiterated long-reiterated market house market-house market men market-men mass meeting mass-meeting match case match-case medal peddler medal-peddler mess fires mess-fires mill dam mill-dam minie ball minie-ball mission school mission-school money getting money-getting morning gown morning-gown much washed much-washed mule bell mule-bell nest mate nest-mate new comer new-comer night marching night-marching office slate office-slate oil can oil-can 39

one fiftieth one-fiftieth orange wood orange-wood organ grinders organ-grinders out of doors out-of-doors oyster shell oyster-shell pale brown pale-brown paper knife paper-knife patch work patch-work pea blossom pea-blossom pilot coat pilot-coat pine knot pine-knot plague house plague-house pocket book pocket-book post office post-office random like random-like rail fence rail-fence raw hide raw-hide red cheeked red-cheeked red shirted red-shirted resting place resting-place river front river-front rocking chair rocking-chair roof tree roof-tree rush bottomed rush-bottomed saddle bow saddle-bow safety pins safety-pins school boys school-boys school girl school-girl self contained selficontained self depreciation self-depreciation self deprecating self-deprecating self knowledge self-knowledge sharp eyed sharp-eyed sharper visaged sharper-visaged shirt front shirt-front skin deep skin-deep side lights side-lights silver plated silver-plated six pound six-pound

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slave girl slave-girl smoothly rounded smoothly-rounded south west south-west stable door stable-door stake and ridered stake-and-rider standing room standing-room star chamber star-chamber station house station-house street cars street-cars street door street-door street gutter street-gutter story book story-book subscription list subscription-list subscription paper subscription-paper sum total sum-total sweet faced sweet-faced sweet named sweet-named sweet smelling sweet-smelling tale bearer tale-bearer tallow candle tallow-candle thumb nail thumb-nail thronging places thronging-places tool boxes tool-boxes trysting place trysting-place turtle dove turtle-dove twelve foot twelve-foot vice presidential vice-presidential wasit high waist-high walking beam walking-beam walking canes walking-canes web foots web-foots wedding ring wedding-ring week day week-day well dressed well-dressed well earned well-earned well fed well-fed well fitting well-fitting well knit well-knit well known well-known 41

well nigh well-nigh well oiled < well-oiled well risen well-risen white gloved white-gloved window and door frames window-and-door-frames window sill window-sill witness stand witness-stand wood pile wood-pile

Separate/Compound a float afloat a while awhile down grade downgrade every body everybody fore armed forearmed free mason - freemason some time sometime straw berries strawberries

Hyphenated/Separate barber-shops barber shops captain-yard captain yard car-seat car seat chicken-legs chicken legs cotton-compress cotton compress cross-purposes cross purposes foundation-stones foundation stones mosquito-bites mosquito bites neighbor-acquaintanship neighbor acquaintanship nigger-quarters nigger quarters nine-o’clock nine o’clock pay-ward pay ward poor-man’s poor man’s railroad-side railroad side sample-vial sample vial' sick-bed sick bed 42

single-ground-story single ground story six-months six months softly-moving softly moving trash-barrel trash barrel wild-fowl wild fowl

Hyphenated/Compound

a-field afield a-flying aflying a-kimbo akimbo a-row arow foot-ways footways look-out lookout re-entered reentered re-expanding reexpanding short-coming shortcoming sub-letting subletting wide-spreading widespreading

Compound/Hy phenate d afterthought after-thought armchair arm-chair ballroom ball-room barefloored hare-floored battlefield battle-field bellknob bell-knob blindbridle blind-bridle bookkeeper book-keeper bookkeeping book-keeping breadstalls bread-stalls broomhandles broom-handles bystanders by-standers bystreets by-streets careworn care-worn childlike child-like 43 close fitting close-fitting coattail coat-tail curbstone curb-stone daybreak day-break daytime day-time deathrate death-rate deckhand deck-hand deskwork desk-work doorpost door-post doorstep door-step doorways door-ways downstairs down-stairs down turned down-turned drydocks dry-docks dustpay dust-pay earring ear-ring earsplitting ear-splitting eyebrows eye-brows farmhouse farm-house figtrees fig-trees firelight fire-light fireplace fire-place fireworks fire-works footpassengers foot-passengers forearm fore-arm foursided four-sided fruitstand fruit-stand gateways gate-ways goodday good-day griefworn grief-worn guncarriages gun-carriages haircloth hair-cloth hencoops hen-coops hillside hill-side homegroups home-groups homemade home-made housebreakers house-breakers hymnbooks hymn-books ice hung ice-hung 44 indoor in-door ironwork iron-work lampposts lamp-posts lutestring lute-string mantlepiece mantle-piece mockingbird mocking-bird moneymaker money-maker neckstock neck-stock oddfellow odd-fellow oldfashioned old-fashioned onlookers on-lookers outstretched out-stretched palmleaf palm-leaf paperfolder paper-folder paperknife paper-knife pawnshop pawn-shop penholder pen-holder pineapples pine-apples playfully play-fully playground play-ground pocketbook pocket-book postmark post-mark readjusted re-adjusted reassured re-assured reawakening re-awakening redskirted red-skirted reopened re-opened roundstoned round-stoned scrollwork scroll-work seaserpent sea-serpent shopkeepers shop-keepers showcases show-cases snowflecked snow-flecked socalled so-called soupplate soup-plate southbound south-bound southwest south-west spiderweb spider-web stairways stair-ways 45 standpoint stand-point steamboat steam-boat steamship steam-ship storekeeper store-keeper streetcar street-car sugarbowl sugar-bowl sunglass sun-glass today to-day tomorrow to-morrow tonight to-night toothpick tooth-pick towit to-wit underfold under-fold underglow under-glow undertone under-tone undertuck under-tuck upriver up-river washbench wash-bench washboard wash-board washtubs wash-tubs weatherbeaten weather-beaten weedgrown weed-grown woodsawyer wood-sawyer workday work-day

Compound/Separate anyone any one anyway any way as mile a smile brickbat brick bat daresay dare say everyone every one forehead fore head insofar in so far maybe may be nevermind never mind nighttime night time percent per cent 46

End of Line Hyphenation

1.16 ship-brokers 5.3 sub-ordinatcd 6.11 hurdy-gurdy & 11.7 hand-writings 18’/2.3 fever-plagued 34.21 under-stand 45.7 with-standing 45.11 French-tongued 48.12 some-thing 49.17 gentle-man 50.1 un-drained 54.3 highly-burnished 55.16 business-like 58.10 fellow-citizens 59.18 gentle-manly 69.17 mis-understood 72.6 straight-on 80.1 him-self 85.1 drop-light 101.12 over-hung 101.13 moon-light 102.17 side-walk 107.16 good-night 110.9 for-ever 113.1 her-self 114.8 her-self 115.10 my-self 115.18 may-be 124.4 post-office 126.18 twenty-four 127.8 him-self 131.11 side-walk 135.7 eye-lids 137.2 him-self 145.14 them-selves 158.2 bread-getting 47

160.7 window-shutters 163.20 with-out 166.12 heavy-set 172.6 acting-deputy-assistant-city- surveyor-pro-tem 176.2 forty-eight 176.17 moon-beam 193.6 grey-haircloth 194.11 him-self 200.18 dye-woods 212.2 door-step 220.13 fore-stalling 223.9 my-self 226.4 hcr-self 238.7 fissurc-like 247.7 out-burst 25 256.4 somc-what 258.9 bed-side 271.11 over-look 274.20 side-splitting 275.20 down-backward 276.14 shooting-galleries 279.4 smoke-stained 290.7 shop-lifters 29356.8 up-startings 305.2 steam-boat 312.14 over-delicate 320.7 twelve-month 324.10 book-keeper 324.19 some-what 326.4 pot-holes 332.14 them-selves 377.7 false-hood 380.5 yellow-fever 381.18 apple-cheeked 399.21 barn-door 400.4 half-inch 415.2 under-stand 418.21 any-one 48

431.18 heavy-browed 453.14 them-selves 454.17 honey-suckle 460.21 up-rising 462.7 over-taken 469.19 shirt-bosom 473.10 land-scape 484.7 over-gay 494.14 battle-field 496.6 cobble-stone 498.19 gun-boats 522.2 south-ward 535.1 with-out 535.9 north-eastern 540.5 south-bound 547.8 good-bye 554.20 ax-stroke 565.20 cotton-headed 570.9 stock-pits 573.18 ever-spread 608.15 some-thing 617.6 side-walk 629.17 out-stretched 631.14 thanks-givings 635.3 some-times 49

SPELLING LIST

The following words are spelled as Cable preferred them in the printer’s copy of Dr. Sevier where either 1) the word typically disagreed with the Century text, or 2) is that which Cable usually preferred, but occasionally varied.

acquaintanship moveable aerated moustache aids musquito Arkansian partizan ax peddlar born pomegranite centre portemonnie cord radience cryer repellant daguerreotype riband detereorating scizzors despatch Shakespeare enclose sombre existence staid faggots subsidance gaiety syrup grey theatre Homborg trepe dation jambolaia vendor Loquet verandah mahogony waived mantlepiece whereabouts Marche whiskey meagre whylce medieval Zenobia mould 50

COMPOSITORIAL STINTS IN THE CENTURY TEXT

November

Clara 54a.l-55a.53 [The / doing] 1.1-6.21 (161)

Reddy 55a.53-56a.32 [Have / them] 6.21-12.4 (98)

LaRue 56a.32-57a.17 [“Yes, / that.”] 12.4-16.1 (106)

Fletcher 57a.l7-58b.6 [The / So] 16.1-22.1 (168)

Emily 58b.6-59b.51 [The / nothing?”] 22.1-28.1 (164)

Levasseur 59b.51-61a.37 [She / acknowledgments.] 28.1-34.1 (166)

Reddy 61a.37-62b.15 [Dr. / me.”] 34.1-40.1 (160)

Levasseur 62b.15-62b.28 [The / telling.] 40.1-41.1 (9)

Fletcher 62b.28-63a.57 [A / place.] 41.1-44.9 (91)

Emily 63a.57-64b.3 [The / brightly.] 44.9-49.3 (128)

Clara 64b.3-65a.44 [“No, / smile.] 49.3-53.1 (102)

Emily 54a.44-66a.16 [“Humph?” / exhaustedly.] 53.1-56.4 (94) 51

Clara 66a.16-66b.61 [“Munse?” / goin’,”] 56.4-60.1 (103)

Levasseur 66b.61-68b.24 [Out / Richling.] 60.1-66.1 (165)

December

LaRue 237a.l-238a.56 [A / he.] 66.1-71.1 (150)

Emily 238a.56-239a.45 [“I / manner!”] 71.1-75.2 (110)

Clara 239a.45-240a.l [The / streets.] 75.2-78.1 (78)

Baxter 240a.l-240b.27 [The / silence.] 78.1-81.3 (83)

Fletcher 240b.27-242a.59 [“Of / asked:] 81.3-89.1 (211)

Baxter 242a.59-243b.22 [“Do / interview.] 89.1-94.3 (146)

Emily 243b.22-245a.24 [“Shall / home.] 94.3-101.1 (180)

Clara 245a.24-246a.14 [Their / Richling.] 101.1-105.1 (101)

LaRue 246a.18-247b.ll [Excellent / will?” 105.1-111.1 (176)

Levasseur 247b.ll-248b.48 [“And / window.] 111.1-117.3 (155)

Clara 248b.48-250a.l [John, / her.] 117.3-122.1 (136) Emily 250a.l-251.26 [Dr. / him.] 122.1-128.1 (170)

January

Percy 422a.l-422b.45 [In / air.”] 128.1-131.3 (146)

Emily 422b.45-423a.51 [“I / bed] 131.3-132.15 (56)

Levasseur 423a.51-423b.17 [whose / Richling.] 132.15-133.12 (27)

V. Winkle 423b.l7-424b.7 [“Good-morning / eyes. 133.12-137.4 (112)

Emily 424b.7-425b.26 [“And / egspwession.”] 137.4-143.4 (135)

Baxter 425b.26-427a.17 [Richling / office.] 143.4-149.7

Levasseur 427a.l7-428a.l [“Narcisse, / went.] 149.7-153.1 (105)

Clara 428a.l-429a.29 [Richling / matter.] 153.1-158.1 (146)

Percy 429a.29-429b.45 [There / pleasure.] 158.1-160.9 (77)

Baxter 429b.45-430b.61 [But 1 reason’.”] 160.9-165.1 (125)

February

Clara 529a.l-530a.28 [Ristofalo / bonus.] 165.1-169.5 (128) 53

Levasseur 530a.28-531a.27 [“But / is!”] , 169.5-173.2 (117)

Emily 531a.27-531b.57 [Doctah / alley-way.”] 173.2-177.1 (91)

Baxter 531b.57-534b.26 [“Well / Mary.] 177.1-190.12 (326)

Levasseur 534b.26-535a.42 [The / door.] 190.12-193.8 (78)

Emily 535a.42-537a.50 [“Mrs. / tangled.] 193.8-202.2 (251)

Clara 537a.50-538b.40 [“No!” / chills.] 202.2-209.12 (178)

Emily 538b.40-539b.12 [As / bliss.] 209.12-213.1 (90)

Clara 539b.l2-540b.l [“Why / name.] 213.1-217 & 218.2 (110)

Emily 540b.l-541b.3 [“Nawcisse,” / you.] 217 & 218.2-222.3 (124)

Clara 541b.3-542b.11 [But / had.] 222.3-225.1 (81)

March

Levasseur 753a.l-754a.13 [The / floor.] 225.1-230.1 (108)

Miller 754a.13-754b.31 [“Yes / me.”] 230.1-233.4 (79) Emily 754b.31-755a.47 [“But / September.] 233.4-237.12 (77)

Cassidy 755a.47-756a.10 [One / suppose.] 237.12-241.3 (85)

Levasseur 756a.l0-757a.8 [“Same / Utter-] 241.3-245.8 (120)

Miller 757a.8-758a.28 [“My / nomenclature.] 245.8-250,/i.4 (142)

Emily 758a.28-759a.32 [It / aid] 250*/2.4 (108)

Cassidy 759a.32-761a.31 [from / gen’leman!”] 25214.4-260.2 (243)

Clara 761a.31-762a.58 [She / Richling.] 260.2-266.1 (111)

Levasseur 762a.58-763b.5 [“It / work!”] 266.1-270.3 (130)

Brangh 763b.5-764b.5 [Mary / O’clock.”] 270.3-274.1 (122)

Miller 764b.5-765b.30 [The / long.] 274.1-27.8.1 (115)

April

Nichols 873a.l-875b.3 [Round / wife!”] 278.1-287.3 (273)

Emily 875b.3-876b.9 [Half / head.] 287.3-292.1 (123) 55

Nichols 876b.9-878a.26 [The / morning.] 292.1-297.4 (200)

Levasseur 878a.26-879b.21 [While / house?] 297.4-303.2 (172)

Emily 879b.21-882a.5 [When / uni-] 303.2-313.1 (285)

Nichols 882a.5-882a.22 [form, / sailors.] 313.1-313.13 (17)

Levasseur 882a.22-882b.57 [“John,” / do.”] 313.13-317.2 (113)

Nichols 882b.57-884b.54 [“Yes, / went.] 317.2-326.1 (236)

Levasseur 884b.54-886b.22 [Mary, / Doctor.”] 326.1-334.1 (144)

May

Clara 70a.l-71a.18 [It / Richling”] 334.1-338.13 (121)

Emily 71a.18-72a.57 [“Very / Doctor.] 338.13-344.1 (161)

Clara 72b.57-73a.19 [But / tressure.”] 344.1-347.3 (84)

Levasseur 73a.19-74a.41 [Doctor / troot.”] 347.3-352.5 (138)

Nichols 74a.41-75a.29 [The / child.”] 352.5-356.5 (107) 56

Miller 75a.29-75a.40 [“It’s / good-night.] 356.5-361.1 (128)

Clara 75a.40-77b.6 [Mrs. / situation.] 361.1-366.8 (149)

Emily 77b.6-78b.19 [“And / extraordinary.] 366.8-371.4 (130)

Levasseur 78b.19-80b.19 [“Come / episodes.] 371.4-380.18 (239)

Emily 80b.19-81b.28 [“Do / myself!”] 380.18-385.1 (91)

June

Levasseur 257a.l-257b.37 [The / it!”] 385.1-387.21 (83)

Jennie 257b.37-256a.57 [Richling / philanthropist?”] 387.21-390.2 (153)

Clara 256a.57-259a.60 [Isn’t / them.”] 390.2-394.1 (125)

Jennie 259a.6O-26Oa.22 [“It / wall.] 394.1-397.1 (80)

Emily 260a.22-261a.5 [“Before / drawing] 397.1-400.7 (105)

Levasseur 261a.5-261a.50 [him / prate!”] 400.7-402.1 (45)

Jennie 261a.50-261b.56 [The / presence.] 402.1-404.6 (63)

Emily 261b.56-262a.46 [“Yesseh,” / check!”] 404.6-406.4 (51) 57

Clara 262a.46-262b.20 [The / Mary.] 406.4-407.3 (35)

Jennie 262b.20-263b.36 [In / ceased.] 407.3-412.1 (138)

Emily 263b.36-246a.42 [“Six / physician. 412.1-415.1 (67)

Levasseur 264a.42-265a.29 [A / confessions.] 415.1-420.1 (106)

Jennie 265a.29-266a.53 [Sometimes / felt. 420.1-425.3 (146)

Clara 266a.53-267a.34 [“Why / previous. 425.3-429.7 (105)

Emily 267a.34-268a.43 [“Did / it.”] 429.7-434.1 (131)

Clara 268a.43-269a.41 [His / again.”] 434.1-439.3 (116)

Jennie 269a.41-269b.57 [“Now, / now.”] 439.3-442.2 (78)

Levasseur 269b.57-270b.32 [“I / Sevier.] 442.2-445.1 (66)

July

Clara 418a.l-419b.3 [Three / ailment.” 445.1-451.5 (160)

Levasseur 419b.3-420b.30 [“No, / eyes.] 451.5-457.1 (145) 58

Emily 420b.30-421b.58 (“It / him!”] 457.1-462.3 (146)

York 421.58-423a.9 (“Come!” / courage.] 462.3-467.1 (130)

Clara 423a.9-424a.58 [Time / it.] 467.1-472.19 (171)

Emily 424a.58-425a.45 [When / wad.] 472.19-477.2 (105)

Hyness 425a.45-426a.17 [“Hi! / Richling!”] 477.2-480.5 (93)

McEvoy 426a.17-426b.46 [“Will / went.] 480.5-483.1 (76)

August

Levasseur 597a.25-597b.23 [Richling / etc.] 483.1-488.11 (157)

Clara 597b.23-598b.47 [“Mille / Richling’!”] 488.11-493.9 (146)

Emily 598b.47-599b.49 [Richling / victory.”] 493.9-498.1 (120)

Baxter 599b.49-600b.34 [Ah! / off!] 498.1-502.2 (111)

Emily 600b.34-601a.48 [Now / sidewalk.] 502.2-505.6 (71)

Clara 601a.48-601b.32 [“Even / red,] 505.6-507.1 (45) Emily 601b.32-601b.47 [fat, / street:] 507.1-508.1 (15)

Levasseur 601b.47-603b.27 [“Oh, / eyes.] 508.1-516.1 (219)

Clara 603b.27-604b.38 [“He’s / truth.”] 516.1-521.3 (133)

Emily 604b.38-605b.48 [“Then / watch.] 521.3-525.6 (126)

Bauer 605b.48-606b.10 [The / pay.”] 525.6-528.1 (84)

Baxter 606b.10-607b.35 [“Oh! / will.”] 528.1-533.2 (147)

Emily 607b.35-608b.13 [Mary / soliloquy. 533.2-535.1 (53)

September

Middlemore 698a.56-700a.19 [The / lines.”] 535.1-540.8 (154)

V. Winkle 700a.19-700b.37 [“But / hard.] 540.8-543.4 (79)

Hoag 700b.37-701b.5 [“See / way.”] 543.4-546.4 (211)

Baxter 701b.5-702a.29 [“Where / sped.] 546.4-549.1 (85)

Levasseur 702a.29-703b.4 [The / ways.] 549.1-554.13 (158)

Middlemore 703b.4-704a.45 [“Jess 1 brother,”] 554.13-558.1 (102) 60

Emily 704a.45-705b.34 [“He’s / Central.”] 558.1- 564.4 (168)

V. Winkle 705b.34-706a.29 [“What / away.] 564.4- 566.4 (36)

Clara 706a.29-707b.24 [The / declining.] 566.4- 572.5 (178)

Hoag 707b.24-708b.13 [Mary / they.] 572.5- 576.1 (110)

Baxter 708b.13-709b.18 [But / cried.] 576.1- 580.10

Middlemore 709b.18-71 la.4 [Richling / last.] 580.10-586.3 (169)

Emily 711a.4-711b.61 [When / granted.] 586.3-595.17 (119)

October

Baxter 821b.5-822a.44 [Her / said:] 595.17-599.7 (100)

Emily 822a.44-823b.12 [“Good-bye, / will.”] 599.7- 605.1 (145)

Clara 823b.l2-825a.5 [“I / little.] 605.1-611.3 (176)

Baxter 825a.5-826b.20 [“Doctor, / settled.] 611.3-618.7 (173)

Levasseur 826b.20-827b.59 [It / it?”] 618.7- 624.1 (160) 61

Emily 827b.59-826a.16 [“Yes.” / aunt.] 624.1-632.1 (317)

Edwards 831a.57-832a.35 [The / school.] 632.1-642.10 (99)

Clara 832a.35-832b.48 (“It’s / poor!] 642.1-644.12 (42)