reads here of home-life in the captive city
when bread was scarce among the people of the lower classes, and a
reckless prodigality shown by the British officers, who passed the
winter in feasting and merry-making while the members of the patriot
army but a few miles away were suffering from both cold and hunger.
The story abounds with pictures of Colonial life skillfully drawn,
and the glimpses of Washington's soldiers which are given show that
the work has not been hastily done, or without considerable study.

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Transcriber's note:

Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected without comment.

The following corrections were made:

p. 14: to her degradation[degredation], she had not murmured at the
p. 30: from the deposits of his memory. The Tynwald[Tynwalk],
the Prince,
p. 35: spinster[spinister], of the parish of Maughold, and Stephen
p. 45: over the low murmur[murmer] of the sea's gentle swell.
"Now is
p. 47: for the house of the Governor[Governer]. It was pointed out
to him,
p. 55: "Maybe so, my ven[veen], maybe so."
p. 94: of twenty hard[hards] fists on the table, the rough toast was
called
p. 95: more. Very soon they were outside[ouside] the little house in
p. 95: lay and tossed in a strong delirium[delirum]. The wet clothes
p. 96: Nary Crowe's[Browe's] cup. This she did, and more than this,
seeming
p. 97: every repetition, and the others joined[foined] him,
struggling to
p. 109: her relations with Jason she remembered[rememberd] that she
was the
p. 112: this time[sime] suffered curtailment. He was ruining himself
at
p. 113: Now the rapid impoverishment of the Governor[Govenor] was
forcing
p. 114: the cry of the poor reached the Governor[Govenor] at
Castletown. No
p. 117: The Governor was right that there would be no sale[sail] for
p. 122: his seat like one who is dumbfounded[dumfounded].
p. 140: in fury at the bare thought of either being hands[hinds] on
their
p. 141: end of it all was a trial for ejectment at Deemster's
[Deemsteer's] Court
p. 141: when the six good men of Maughold had clambered[clamered]
up to
p. 142: fasten on somebody's[someboby's] throat, or pick up something
as a dog
p. 145: better than four years have passed[pass] away since I left
the
p. 147: daughter of the Governor-General[Govenor-Gener