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Transcriber’s Notes:
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=.
Obvious printer’s errors corrected.
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings, non-standard punctuation, inconsistently hyphenated words, and other inconsistencies.
For example: on p.116: George Sand’s name is misprinted as “Georges Sand”. Left as printed.
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